Quotes - Literature & Suchlike

"A mercenary company is an immense machine that takes in bread, milk, meat and wine, tentage, cordage and cloth at one end, and gives out shit, dirty washing, horse manure, trashed property, drunken vomit and broken kit at the other end. The fact that they sometimes do some fighting is entirely incidental!"
From "Ash : A Secret History" by Mary Gentle

"Hoc futui quam lude militorum"
(Translated: "Sod this for a game of soldiers")
From "Ash : A Secret History" by Mary Gentle