Infantryman's Quotes

#1. An infantryman's job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc's job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, "Not today.

Adam Fenner

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

Bill Mauldin

#3. The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood. The artist wears combat boots.

Steven Pressfield

#4. Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in ease and safety, issue exhortations to men in the front line.

C.S. Lewis

#5. I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.

Mark Helprin

#6. A German infantryman wrote in his diary, 'Courage has nothing to do with it. The fear of death surpasses all other feelings and terrible compulsion alone drives the soldier forward.'22

James Wyllie

#7. Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

Viktor Suvorov

#8. What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

George Grosz

#9. 100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.

Demetri Martin

#10. Somewhere in the city, Pestilence was raising an army for its fellow horseman, Death.

Steve Hockensmith

#11. When leaders carry out policies for decades that have no consequences for the stated goal and are very costly, you have to ask whether they are telling you the truth or whether the policies are for a different goal, because they are not reducing drug use.

Noam Chomsky

#12. Love that is enough. Love that is big enough for two. Love that is endless enough for more. Love that is just between me and you.

Rachel Higginson

#13. Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

Diana Wynne Jones

#14. I didn't kill that man and if you say I did I'll deny everything.

Albert Einstein

#15. There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge

Graham McNeill

#16. Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

E.F. Schumacher

#17. An average infantryman records one enemy fatality for every fifteen thousand combat rounds expended.

Lee Child

#18. See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.

W.S. Gilbert

#19. Go fuck yourself, Teague," Marshall said. "If you were a real infantryman, you'd have already commanded instead of hiding out on the staff."
"Maybe there are limits to how many hairy asses I'll kiss to make major. Feel free to continue for the both of us, though," Teague said.

Jessica Scott

#20. An infantryman can fight only if somebody else delivers him to his zone; in a way I suppose pilots are just as essential as we are.

Robert A. Heinlein

#21. Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore

Phil Ochs

#22. We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

Sherman Alexie

#23. A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Behan