War Quotes
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.Ursula K. LeGuin
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Jane Harrison
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.Hellen Kelle
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.R. A. Lafferty
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.Rich Cook
War is based on deception.Sun - Tzu
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.Hemingway
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.Rensis Likert
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?Hermocrates of Syracuse
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.Ronald Reagan
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.George Bernard Shaw
A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.John Stewart Mills
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.General George Patton
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.Mahatma Gandhi
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.Aristotle
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.Charles Kingsley
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The best soldiers are not warlike.Chinese
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
Eternity is very long, especially towards the end.Woody Allen, Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees, page 71
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.Don Delillo
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.Horace
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.Walter Bagehot
