The Frenchwant to attack, the Americans want to bomb, and the British want to have another meeting.

-Anonymous
  US diplomat commenting on the war in Bosnia. Quoted by William Safire in the NewYork Times, 27  Jul.

It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.

-Galbraith,John Kenneth
  The Liberal Hour.

Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack; But those behind cried 'Forward!' 526 And those before cried 'Back!'

-1st Baron
  Lays of  Ancient Rome,'Horatius', stanza 50.

Whatever isfunny issubversive, every joke isultimatelya custard pie† A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack uponmorality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'The  Art of Donald McGill'.

'Good-morning; good-morning!'the General said When we met him last weekon our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. 'He's a cheery old card,'grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'The General'.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because†it meansthat they have not a single political argument left.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
  In the DailyTelegraph, 21 Mar.