He Who Fails To Plan Is Planning

An Aphorism Is Not An Aphorism Unless You Know What It Means.

I Pass With Relief From The Tossing Sea Of Cause And Theory To The Firm Ground Of Result And Fact.

One Day President Roosevelt Told Me That He Was Asking Publicly For Suggestions About What The War Should Be Called. I Said At Once 'the Unnecessary War'.

There Is No Doubt The Charge Was An Awful Gamble And That No Normal Precautions Were Possible. The Issue As Far As I Was Concerned Had To Be Left To Fortune Or To God - Or To Whatever May Decide These Things. I Am Content And Shall Not Complain.

My Ability To Persuade My Wife To Marry Me Was Quite My Most Brilliant Achievement ... Of Course, It Would Have Been Impossible For Any Ordinary Man To Have Got Through What I Had To Go Through In Peace And War Without The Devoted Aid Of What We Call, In England, One's Better Half.