"It is rather interesting how you get..." - Quote by George S Patton
It is rather interesting how you get used to death.
More by George S Patton
More on Death
“Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."”
“The deep pain that is feltat the death of every friendly soularises from the feeling that there isin every individual somethingwhich is inexpressible,peculiar to him alone,and is, therefore,absolutely and irretrievably lost.”
“Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.”
More on Adaptation
“During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.”
“If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.”
“The tyrant custom, most grave senators,Hath made the flinty and steel couch of warMy thrice-driven bed of down.”