The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways,… - Herman Wouk
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways,…
- Herman Wouk
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. - Herman Wouk
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and … - Herman Wouk
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and …
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. - Herman Wouk
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth. - Herman Wouk
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule. - Herman Wouk
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime. - Herman Wouk
Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming o… - Herman Wouk
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming o…
This life is slow suicide, unless you read. - Herman Wouk
This life is slow suicide, unless you read.
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