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The will of the people is the best law. — Ulysses S. Grant

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided ... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. — Ulysses S. Grant

The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses. — Allan Sherman

Ulysses'. No one reads him anymore. No one reads anything anymore. They think Browning is a gun. — Richard Flanagan

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service. — Ulysses S. Grant

The theory of government changes with general progress. — Ulysses S. Grant

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. — Raymond Queneau

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? — Abraham Cowley

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. — Ulysses S. Grant

Life often presents you with difficult choices. But who made up the rules? Why choose at all? — Ulysses Brave

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. — James Patterson

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians. — Ulysses S. Grant

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect, — Ulysses S. Grant

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did. — Ulysses S. Grant

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about. — Ulysses S. Grant

Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?
He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told. — James Joyce

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. — Orson Scott Card

But for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him. — Ulysses S. Grant

I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later. — Ulysses S. Grant

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten then he who continues the attack wins. — Ulysses S. Grant

I knew the enemy were ready to break and only wanted a little encouragement from us to go quickly and join their friends who had started earlier. — Ulysses S. Grant

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me. — Ulysses S. Grant

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa
blessing it rather than in love with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. — Raymond Queneau

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front. — Ulysses S. Grant

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized. — Ulysses S. Grant

We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people? — Ulysses S. Grant

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both. — Ulysses S. Grant

I'm afraid I'm elected. — Ulysses S. Grant

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey. — Joachim Du Bellay

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.' — Vikram Seth

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. — Ulysses S. Grant

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business. — Ulysses S. Grant

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also. — Ulysses S. Grant

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage. — James Joyce

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral — Ulysses S. Grant

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. — Ulysses S. Grant

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive. — Ulysses S. Grant

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party. — Ulysses S. Grant

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant

Nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust. — Ulysses S. Grant

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency. — Ulysses S. Grant

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. — Alfred Tennyson

Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses.
Write not again, but come, sweet mate — Ovid

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. — James Joyce

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also. — Ulysses S. Grant

Ah, you know my weaknesses
my children and my horses. — Ulysses S. Grant

There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment. — Ulysses S. Grant

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me. — James Joyce

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature. — Sara Sheridan