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What should matter and what does matter, monsieur, are not one and the same thing, I regret to say.
Southern Victory (1997)
“We sure is crazy,” someone would say. “If you ain’t crazy in dis here place, you gots to be nuts.”
Southern Victory (1997)
“You may not care about famous, buddy, but famous is gonna care about you,” the photographer predicted.
Southern Victory (1997)
Only two promotions really mattered: the one up from buck private and the one to general’s rank.
Southern Victory (1997)
Mooers might not have been in the middle of nowhere, but it wasn’t right at the edges, either.
Southern Victory (1997)
If barbarians recognized that they were barbarians, they wouldn’t be so barbarous any more.
Opening of the World (2007)
They smelled of old sweat and leather and tobacco and mud: like soldiers, in other words.
Southern Victory (1997)
You can’t get along with somebody who’s bound and determined not to get along with you.
Southern Victory (1997)
A war is a disaster whether you win or you lose—it’s only a worse disaster if you lose.
Southern Victory (1997)
If you were half as funny as think you are, you’d be twice as funny as you really are.
Opening of the World (2007)
Anytime a politician said he wouldn’t beat around the bush, you were well advised to keep your hand on your wallet.
Southern Victory (1997)
Sometimes a fellow who’d learned what to do with a rifle in his hands didn't care in which direction he pointed it.
Southern Victory (1997)
Whenever you throw away what’s right for what’s convenient, you end up losing both.
Southern Victory (1997)
But, aside from that grumbling, without which they would hardly have been soldiers, they went where they were ordered.
Southern Victory (1997)
Scipio would sooner have gone on without the revolution than the other way around.
Southern Victory (1997)
War would have been a much simpler, easier business with politics out of the mix.
Southern Victory (1997)
You couldn’t find an answer if you didn’t know you should be asking the question.
Southern Victory (1997)
The ability to see what is, sir, is essential for the leader of a great nation.
Southern Victory (1997)
Only thing worse than fighting a war and winning is fighting a war and losing.
Southern Victory (1997)
A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.
Atlantis (series) (2007)