War Quotes
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.Sue Grafton
You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5
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
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.Dr. Jonas Salk
Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.Euripides
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.Orson Welles
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.George Sand
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.Thomas Jefferson
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.Alfred North Whitehead
Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.Seneca
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.Umberto Eco
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.Elizabeth Harrison
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.Queen Elizabeth
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
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
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.Terry Pratchett, Jingo
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.Benjamin Franklin
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.Charles Manson
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.Benjamin Franklin
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.Robert Ingersoll
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
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.Margaret Fairless Barbe
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.Adlai Stevenson
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.Robert Burton
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.M. R. Vincent
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.Niccolo Machiavelli
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare
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
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
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)
