Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Keep your enemies in front of you.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Always keep your friends close, but your enemies keep closer.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.