Quote #206
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? Excuse me, I have no time to listen to such nonsense.
More from Napoleon Bonaparte
- Quoted in Representative Men: Uses of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Give them a whiff of grapeshot.
- You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
- A constitution should be short and obscure.
- You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
- Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
- When he who measures the duration of life has pronounced his secret, all the sciences of humanity are but useless essays.
- In early life he may have been a sincere republican; but he hated anarchy and disorder, and, before his campaign in Italy was over, he had …