Somersault Quotes
More Somersault Quotes
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
ulysses s. grant— Quoted by General Horace Porter in Campaigning with Grant, The Century Magazine (December, 1896).
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.
george orwell— "As I Please," Tribune (7 July 1944)
