War Quotes

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

Francis Bacon

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

Horace

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Unknown

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Adlai Stevenson

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Robert A. Heinlein

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Native American Prove

Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Michael J. Gel

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

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.

Oscar Wilde

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

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

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Donald E. Knuth

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

Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

Arnold Toynbee

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

John Webster, The White Devil (1612)

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

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

Orison Swett Marden

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

Helen Kelle

Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Thomas Jefferson

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Karl Kraus

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.

Vincent Van Gogh

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

Hugh Elliott

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.

Ely Gulbertson

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

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Plato

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson