Moltke The Elder Quotes

#1. In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#2. On the way home I remembered a bit of old folklore about how to boil a frog. You put it in cold water, then start turning up the heat. If you do it gradually, the frog is too stupid to jump out. I don't know if it's true or not, but I decided it was an excellent metaphor for growing old.

Stephen King

#3. No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force,

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#4. And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, "This is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, dammit I left all this pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it ... Now I have to create Republicans."

Bill Hicks

#5. The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#6. Eternal peace is a dream - and not even a beautiful one.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#7. Strategy is a system of expedients

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#8. I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

John Green

#9. One of the virtues of the NHS ... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

Clive James

#10. Sometimes the world we live in is a truly weird place.

Stephen King