Quotes About Philip Sheridan

#1. Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

Bruce Catton

#2. I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

Philip Sheridan

#3. The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

Philip Sheridan

#4. Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd,
And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

William Cowper

#5. My home is where you are, not what world I live in.

Denise Grover Swank

#6. Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.

Philip Sheridan

#7. Kill the imagination and you kill the soul. Kill the soul and you're left with a listless, apathetic creature who can become hopeless or brutal or both.

Marion Woodman

#8. I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

Philip Sheridan

#9. Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

Philip Sheridan

#10. If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

Philip Sheridan

#11. Pure things give off positive energy; impure things don't.

Michelle Goldberg

#12. Sentimentality, Mrs Revel. You know it is. Love isn't a drug that you take to blind you to your surroundings - you can make it that, yes, but it's a pity - love can be a lot more than that.

Agatha Christie

#13. The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

Alexander Lowen

#14. No matter how much money he'd been offered or how many glittering stars had requested duets, he hadn't sung for them.
But he'd sung for me.

Karen Healey

#15. If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell

Philip Henry Sheridan

#16. I'm smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and he beats the world. he don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight, but it scares me like hell.

Philip Sheridan

#17. Give a little party," she insisted. "Just a small affair. Nobody will dress. It's the anniversary of the founding of the Bloomer League - you didn't even remember that." "It's no use," said Tom.

John Steinbeck