If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten..

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore..

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours..

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same..

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who..

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears..

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this..

Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild..

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.

If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price..

Every woman knows all about everything..

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands o….

The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the….

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening..

Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!".

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and ye….

Both triumph and disaster are impostors..

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the D….

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows..

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are w….