» I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
» I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
» I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
» Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
» Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
» In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
» It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.
» Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
» Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
» It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.