Famous quotes containing the words general, strike and/or called:
“One general builds his success on ten thousand bleaching bones.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The first to strike will gain the upper hand.”
—Chinese proverb.
“We went to Mannheim and attended a shivaree—otherwise an opera—the one called “Lohengrin.” The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. The racking and pitiless pain of it remains stored up in my memory alongside the memory of the time that I had my teeth fixed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)