Quotes
Quotes about War
She [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, ... or internal difficulties.
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.
Like rowers, who advance backward.
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
See how the world rewards its votaries.
The vicar's right; he says that we
Are ever wayward, weak and blind;
He tells us in his homily
Ambition ruins all mankind;
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
It is magnificent, but it is not war.
Sinew of war.
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.
There is no discharge in that war.
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
Wars and rumours of wars.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.
Beware of a man of one book.
"Arms, and the man I sing, who forc'ed by Fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting Hate; Expell'ed and exil'd, left the Trojan Shoar: Long Labours, both by Sea and Land he bore; And in the doubtful War, before he won, the Latian realm, and built the destin'd Town: His banish'd gods restor'd to Rites Divine, and setl'd sure Succession in his line: From Whence the Race of Alban Fathers come, and the long Glories of Majestick Rome."
"By Destiny compell'd, and in Despair, the Greeks grew weary of the tedious War: And by Minerva's Aid a Fabrick rear'd, Which like steed of monstrous height appear'd." -Aeneas describing the Trojan Horse
