General

Famous quotes containing the word general:

“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)

“Under an able general there are no weak troops.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man’s general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)