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England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends. — Ulysses S. Grant

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives. — Ulysses S. Grant

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

Treat each other with respect, even if other people can only look at the colour of your eyes. — Ulysses Brave

The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
[on James Joyce's Ulysses] — Virginia Woolf

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

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. — Ulysses S. Grant

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. — Ovid

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

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many. — Ulysses S. Grant

He read and reread 'Ulysses'. He looked back at Amy. They were the first beautiful thing I ever knew, Dorrigo Evans said. — Richard Flanagan

Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace. — Ulysses G. Weatherly

It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for? — Ulysses S. Grant

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

I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear. — Craig Raine

James Joyce's Ulysses — Pamela Paul

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

Delectable," Ulysses said. "Of all the drinks that I have drank on all the planets I have visited, the coffee is the best. — Clifford D. Simak

I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't. — Ulysses S. Grant

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie

They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late.
Ulysses — James Joyce

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein

Ulysses Club (Australia) a social club for riders over 40, whose membership is dedicated to "growing old disgracefully", or — Stella Rheingold

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three. — Ulysses S. Grant

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly — Ulysses S. Grant

I will not move my army without onions. — Ulysses S. Grant

You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law. — Ulysses S. Grant

His presence soon restored confidence. — Ulysses S. Grant

I have been Homer; shortly, I shall be No One, like Ulysses; shortly, I shall be all men; I shall be dead. — Jorge Luis Borges

It will be all right if it turns out all right. — Ulysses S. Grant

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them. — Ulysses S. Grant

I am, a stride at a time — James Joyce

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson — Alfred Tennyson

Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires. — James Joyce

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent,
Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love — Soren Kierkegaard

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. — Ulysses S. Grant

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered. — Ulysses S. Grant

Each Australian is a Ulysses. — Christina Stead

HE WILL BECOME KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS ULYSSES! Holy — Kate DiCamillo

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him. — Ulysses S. Grant

I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not. — Ulysses S. Grant

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. — Ulysses S. Grant

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all. — 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

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home — Ulysses S. Grant

No, it did a lot of other things, too.
[turning down fan who asked to kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses — James Joyce

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom — William, Saroyan

Inner beauty lasts longer than the more obvious seductions, so throw away the miniskirt and thigh-length boots. — Ulysses Brave

Of this trinity of classic heroes - Ulysses, Aeneas, and Achilles - Ulysses is the least obnoxious. — William A. Quayle

On several occasions during the war he came to the relief of the Union army by means of his SUPERIOR MILITARY GENIUS. — Ulysses S. Grant

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land. — Werner Herzog

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia. — Mark Twain

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stay alert at all times, alert to any opportunity for rest. — Ulysses Brave

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works. — Ulysses S. Grant

Be just before you are generous. — James Joyce

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. — Virginia Woolf

I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest. — D. B. Weiss

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. — Frederick Lenz

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

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

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

Shite and onions! — James Joyce

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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