War Quotes

In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

La Fontaine

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

Unknown

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Hemingway

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Henry Mille

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

Pinda

In war there is no substitute for victory.

General Douglas MacArthu

You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.

Kahlil Gibran

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.

Dante Alighieri

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

Author Unknown

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Ricthe

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Dag Hammarskjold

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.

Simon MacDonald

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

Mae West

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Sun - Tzu

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Susan Sontag

Jean Grey Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single - Celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.

X2 X - Men United

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

Matt Groening

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Anatol Rapoport

I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!

Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Zig Zigla

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.

Lester Bowles Pearson

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams