Quotes from authors born in 1885
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Alice Paul
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. Patton
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
David Herbert Lawrence
Ronald Fisher 
Daniel Burnham 
Teemu Selanne 
Edith Sitwell 
Myrna Loy 
Karl Lagerfeld 
Fred Shero 
Lawrence Lessig