Machine Guns Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words machine, guns and/or defeated:

    Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    With drums and guns, and guns and drums
    The enemy nearly slew ye,
    My darling dear, you look so queer,
    Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye!
    Unknown. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye (l. Chorus.)

    The poet is he who fights on the passionate
    Side and whoever loses he wins; when he
    Is defeated it is hard to say who wins....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)