War Quotes

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

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

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, Jr.

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

St. Francis Xavie

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

Goethe

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear - Sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Vaclav Havel

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

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Dag Hammarskjold

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Kahlil Gibran

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Henry Kissinge

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

Eric Nicol

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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

Henry Van Dyke

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - No alternative.

Golda Mei

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

Orison Swett Marden

He grounds the warship he walks on.

John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983

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

Herodotus

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

The journey is the reward.

Taoist Saying

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Anonymous

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 13: 2

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

Hunter S. Thompson

Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Henry Louis Mencken

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds