Famous quotes containing the words field and/or express:
“Swift blazing flag of the regiment,
Eagle with crest of red and gold,
These men were born to drill and die.
Point for them the virtue of slaughter,
Make plain to them the excellence of killing
And a field where a thousand corpses lie.”
—Stephen Crane (18711900)
“[One cannot express lack of knowledge in affirmative language.] This idea is more firmly grasped in the form of interrogation: What do I know?Mthe words I bear as a motto, inscribed over a pair of scales.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)