Quotes from Bill Mauldin

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

Beautiful view. Is there one for the enlisted men?

I feel like a fugitive from th' law of averages.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.

Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought—or at least we shouldn't try to be. Ours is more the role of the lowly gadfly: circle and stab, circle and stab. Roughly put, our credo should be, if it's big, hit it.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

When we ain't fightin' we should act like sojers

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.