Ambush Position

Famous quotes containing the words ambush and/or position:

    War is not a life: it is a situation,
    One which may neither be ignored nor accepted,
    A problem to be met with ambush and stratagem,
    Enveloped or scattered.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)