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Quotes About General

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
~ Homer
People, in general, he said, only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
People, in general, Athos said, only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
People in general only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having some one to blame for having given it
~ Alexandre Dumas
People in general,' he said, 'only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having some one to blame for having given it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
as a general rule, people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or, if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
People in general only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having some on to blame for having given it
~ Alexandre Dumas
Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.
~ Joe Haldeman
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.
~ Johan Huizinga
15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
~ Edmund Burke
It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
~ Edmund Burke
degeneration has been rather of a local than of a general character,
~ Edward Burnett Tylor (sir.)
I think you're some kind of deviated prevert, and I think General Ripper found out about your preversion and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.
~ Anonymous
The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept. 13
~ Anthony Dunne
Straightforward, direct, and loyal, he was the finest general and admiral of the age.
~ Anthony Everitt
Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.
~ Edward Everett
I am running for Attorney General because I believe there is no higher calling than the pursuit of justice.
~ Eric Schneiderman
Before Lil B, hip-hop and music in general was in a different space. Lil B really just pushed this independence.
~ Lil B
I have a fond appreciation for the Canadian culture and the Canadian food scene in general.
~ Guy Fieri
He was a successful general because he knew men. He knew that all men will go to hell over three things: alcohol, money . . . and sex. This fellow apparently hadn't. Better for him if he had!
~ Ford Madox Ford
My son displays a general garment and you claim it's cut to your fit?" Jessica asked. "What a fascinating revelation.
~ Frank Herbert
quantum mechanics, general relativity, and the Standard Model of particle physics.
~ Frank J. Tipler