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March Quotes - Page 3

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

Said at the Duchess of Richmond's ball on June 15, 1815. "Camps, Quarters and Casual Places" by Archibald Forbes, www.gutenberg.org. 1896.

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.192, Delphi Classics

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.

Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.7

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

"The Humorous Lieutenant". Play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Act III, scene 5, line 76, 1647.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.102

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

1982 James Axton. The Names, ch.3.