Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.