Enemy Artillery Fire

Famous quotes containing the words enemy, artillery and/or fire:

“When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.”
—Sun Tzu (6–5th century B.C.)

“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Tut, man, one fire burns out another’s burning,
One pain is lessened by another’s anguish.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)