War Quotes

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Horace, Epistles

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".

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

William Shakespeare

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.

Ely Gulbertson

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun - Tzu

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Unknown

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Charles Ives

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

George Will

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

This Is Spinal Tap

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Richard Whatley

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old - Fashioned.

George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2

Having had to encounter single - Handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

Joseph Conrad

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultie

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Eric Nicol

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Mary Bertone

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain