Quotes
Quotes about War
Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. [Lat., Justitia nihil exprimit praemii, nihil pretii: per se igitur expetitur.]
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loath to tell them so. Lips go dry and eyes grow wet Waiting to be warmly met, Keep them not in waiting yet; Kisses kept are wasted.
A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.
Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things that he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pendant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory.
The author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Moslems to execute them wherever they find them.
For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
