War Quotes

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

Confucius

Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Thomas Merton

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

Thomas Huxley

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

Helen Kelle

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

Norman Vincent Peale

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

John Ernst Steinbeck

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

Matt Groening

To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.

E. Kim Nebeuts

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

Charles Manson

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.

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Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.

Miguel Cerbantes

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Margaret Fulle

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

William Punshon

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - Nay are dragged - Towards evil.

Hippocrates, Decorum

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Sun - Tzu

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James R. Lowell

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well - Housed, well - warmed, and well - Fed.

Herman Melville

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.

T. S. Eliot

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

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