Guards Mortar Battalions

Famous quotes containing the words guards and/or mortar:

    Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    For the first time I’m content to see
    What poor mortar and bricks
    I have to build with, knowing that I can
    Never in seventy years be more a man
    Than now a sack of meal upon two sticks.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)