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Quotes about War


That civilization perishes in which the individual thwarts the revelation of the universal.

Tagore

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James M. Barrie

Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Erasmus

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

Warranty and guaranty clauses are voided by payment of the invoice.

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return.

Da Vinci

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Conscience is the inner voice warning us that someone may be looking.

H.L. Mencken

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

program (pro'-gram) [vi] To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall but with fewer opportunities for reward.

Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

John Fowles [The Magus, 1965]

Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.

Arther Koestler

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeanette Rankin

Warranty and guaranty clauses are voided by payment of the invoice.

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James M. Barrie

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

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

John Ruskin

Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

John Fowles [The Magus, 1965]

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice -George Jackson

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

St. Bernard

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