#napoleon

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #les-miserables #napoleon #science-fiction #science

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates. ↗

— Jon Heder

#bill #bill gates #did #dressed #gates

The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among the English that if liberty, equality, and justice were ever to come to their shores, it certainly was not Napoleon who would bring them there. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#liberty #napoleon #age

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available. ↗

— Michael Baden

#arsenic #available #because #before #british

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#good #good idea #guess #had #i

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#ambition #been #cook #ever #growing

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#ask #because #burton #doing #fighting

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

#field #forty #his #i #made

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#how #iii #learned #like #make

Even Napoleon had his Watergate. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#had #his #napoleon #watergate