Officers Mess

Famous quotes containing the words officers and/or mess:

“I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme—mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.”
—Bernard Ingham (b. 1932)

“Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)