I Eat Soldiers For Breakfast

Love is a kind of military service. - Ovid

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. - Groucho Marx

Marketing strategy is a lot like military strategy. - Liddell Hart

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. - Marechal Ferdinand Foch

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. - William Westmoreland

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

Where some states have an army, the Prussian army has a state. - Voltaire

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. - Otto von Bismarck

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

A standing army is one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen. - James Madison

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end. - George S Patton

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide. - Henri Barbusse

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer. - Philip II

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. - Alphonse Allais

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Samson, he takes the jawbone out of the grass and he kills the whole army of the Phillipines. - Archie Bunker

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. - Elie Wiesel

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. - Alexander the Great

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. - George S Patton

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself. - Henny Youngman

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins