26 Quotes by Bill Mauldin

If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude.

Look at an infantryman’s eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

When we realize finally that we aren’t God’s given children, we’ll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted to make something out of the humorous situations which come up even when you don’t think life could be any more miserable.

I’m convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

A soldier’s life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I’ve been able to follow my kid’s progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.

When we ain’t fightin’ we should act like sojers.