General Quotes

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

General consultant to mankind.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.