That’s what wit sounds like when it’s got nothing to day but says it anyway.
(The saying is in war the first casualty is the truth. But you all knew that.)
“The first casualty of war is truth.”
He seems to have jumbled the saying Arthur quotes with ‘the plan never survives first contact with the enemy’. (Which is pithier than Helmuth von Moltke’s original phrasing: ‘[N]o plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.’)
I do like how Ms. P’s closing line works two ways.
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson.
That’s what wit sounds like when it’s got nothing to day but says it anyway.
(The saying is in war the first casualty is the truth. But you all knew that.)
“The first casualty of war is truth.”
He seems to have jumbled the saying Arthur quotes with ‘the plan never survives first contact with the enemy’. (Which is pithier than Helmuth von Moltke’s original phrasing: ‘[N]o plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.’)
I do like how Ms. P’s closing line works two ways.
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson.