War Quotes

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Unknown

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.

Demophilus

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984 - 88

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

Pablo Picasso

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.

Marilyn King

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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

War does not determine who is right - Only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.

Publius Ovidius NasoOvid

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Rita Rudne

There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George Frost Kennan

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

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)

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939

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

Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Claudianus

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Heaven - Born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.

William Shakespeare

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

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

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.

Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Masterlinck

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