War Quotes

War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

Kristen Ashley Roth

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over - Concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

Halford E. Luccock

Love is a kind of warfare.

Ovid

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.

T. S. Eliot

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Wolcott Gibbs

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Orison Swett Marden

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Mille

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non - Conformist.

Ayn Rand

Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.

Matt Groening

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Ernest Dimnet

Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Kelle

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.

Loren

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Karl Menninge

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca

Beware the ides of March.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

John Dewey

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Holbrook Jackson

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Queen Elizabeth