Letters, 202.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
„It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.“
— Voltaire French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694 - 1778
On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons.
Letter to François-Louis-Henri Leriche (6 February 1770)
In his Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750), Voltaire wrote: God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Citas
„God is on the side of the big battalions.“
— George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan
Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s
„Losers always meet with mockery, Heaven sides with the fortunate.“
— Wolfram von Eschenbach, kniha Parzival
Der schadehafte erwarp ie spot:
sælden pflihtær dem half got.
Bk. 6, st. 289, line 11; p. 151.
Parzival
„Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.“
— Sophocles ancient Greek tragedian -496 - -406 př. n. l.
Fragment 842.
Phædra
— Lyndon B. Johnson American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969) 1908 - 1973
1960s, Inaugural address (1965)
„When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.“
— Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 275
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
„Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.“
— Dwight D. Eisenhower American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961) 1890 - 1969
„There is always another side, always.“
— Jean Rhys, kniha Wide Sargasso Sea
Zdroj: Wide Sargasso Sea
„October's bellowing anger breakes and cleaves
The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood“
— Siegfried Sassoon, Autumn
"Autumn"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)
Kontext: October's bellowing anger breakes and cleaves
The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood
In whose lament I hear a voice that grieves
For battle's fruitless harvest, and the feud
Of outrage men. Their lives are like the leaves
Scattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blown
Along the westering furnace flaring red.
O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,
The burden of your wrongs is on my head.
„Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.“
— Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547 - 1616
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
„To win was always deemed a splendid thing,
Whether it be by fortune or by skill.“
— Ludovico Ariosto, kniha Orlando Furioso
Fu il vincer sempremai laudabil cosa,
Vincasi o per fortuna o per ingegno.
Canto XV, stanza 1 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
„We will always side with the wrongdoers.“
— Ahmet Davutoğlu Turkish politician 1959
Oct. 13, 2016 [Tremblay, Pinar, November 1, 2015, Forget online dating, now the Turkish government will find you a spouse, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/turkey-election-pledges-davutoglu-offers-matchmaking.html, Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East]
— Pietro Badoglio Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister of Italy 1871 - 1956
Quoted in "The Civilizing Mission" - Page 232 - by A. J. Barker - 1968
„I always thought there was very little wit wanted to make a fortune in the City.“
— Anthony Trollope, kniha The Prime Minister
Zdroj: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 10
„Her sunny side was always up.“
— Richard Brautigan American novelist, poet, and short story writer 1935 - 1984
Zdroj: Sombrero Fallout
„Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.“
— André Gide French novelist and essayist 1869 - 1951
„Always look on the bright side of life.“
— Eric Idle British comedian, actor, singer and writer 1943
Zdroj: Song written for the film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
„It’s always tomorrow on the other side of the world.“
— Ron English American artist 1959
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
