Quotes About Combat

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

You only had to be in one fight to know what a beautiful thing a trench could be. The first minié ball whizzes by your head, and you're a digging man evermore.

If clients treat you like dirt, fire them if possible. If you can't, charge asshole taxes, give employees who work with them combat pay, and limit everyone's exposure to these creeps.

The day will come when man will have to fight noise as inexorably as cholera and the plague

Real strategists are warriors and must be willing and able to fight battles, to "see the elephant," as Civil War soldiers were fond of saying.

Rome, on the other hand, lost—suffering on that one day more battle deaths than the United States during the entire course of the war in Vietnam, suffering more dead soldiers than any other army on any single day of combat in the entire course of Western military history.

Robert Leckie

Man without a sword is still a warrior, but one with no shield is just a target.

Sleep is a weapon!

Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where I was or what I was doing except that I was obeying orders and trying not to be killed in any of the variety of horrible ways open to me.

Mathin said: It is best to take your opponent's sash. The kysin mark each blow dealt, but to cut off the other rider's sash is best. This you will do. Oh, said Harry. You may, if you wish, unhorse him first, Mathin added as an afterthought. Thanks, said Harry.

As time went by, matters improved; the armies, especially the British and French Armies, became better at staying alive while killing larger numbers of the enemy which, though hardly a matter for satisfaction in human terms, is what well-trained armies are supposed to do.

while the means to cause casualties had vastly increased, the means to reduce them had yet to be thought of. This applied in particular to the attack, because the armies, all the armies, were fighting a twentieth-century war with nineteenth-century tactics - even though the new technology had made those tactics either obsolescent or positively dangerous.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

The blow fell upon Jasra's jaw, and I barely managed to free Frakir in time to keep from being dragged backward with her into Luke's waiting arms.

Un peuple, qui avait perdu l'habitude de forger sa propre histoire, se contentait désormais d'assister en habit du dimanche à une parodie : car nous l'avons vu, les armes des gladiateurs et les techniques de combat empruntées successivement aux peuples vaincus étaient comme l'image fossilisée de la conquête romaine. À cet égard, l'amphithéâtre remplaçait le feuilleton historique.

By the end of Grant's second term, white Democrats, through the "redeemer" movement, had reclaimed control of every southern state, winning in peacetime much of the power lost in combat. They promulgated a view of the Civil War as a righteous cause that had nothing to do with slavery but only states' rights—to which an incredulous James Longstreet once replied, "I never heard of any other cause of the quarrel than slavery.

One scandalized British soldier complained that the American riflemen "conceal themselves behind trees etc. till an opportunity presents itself of taking a shot at our advance sentries, which done, they immediately retreat. What an unfair method of carrying on a war!

Mills lashed out at Barbot as "an impertinent puppy"—the sort of fighting words that prompted duels.

An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.

if you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his." Gen. George S. Patton

Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you

Aim for the side of the skull, which is softer and displaces the brain more.