War Quotes
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
But penance need not be paid in suffering... It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - Never knowing.David Viscott
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.John Maynard Keynes
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.Machiavelli
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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.Larry Niven
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.Ted Morgan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.Ronald Reagan
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.Andr Gide
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.Marquis de Sade
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.Elizabeth Harrison
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.Christine Leefeldt
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
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.Ross Hersey
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.General Smedley Butle
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.Robert Burton
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.Umberto Eco
Life 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
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...Aristophanes
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.Patricia Moyes
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.Unknown
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.Rene Descartes
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
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.Machiavelli
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.Augustine Birrell
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.Thomas Mann
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.John Anthony Ciardi
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.Anonymous
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
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
