war quotes

“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. ”

War quotes - War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”

“If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. ”

War quotes - When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”

“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. ”

“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. ”

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ”

War quotes - When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.”

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”

“When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

War quotes - The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.”

“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”

War quotes - I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.”

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”

“It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.”

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

“Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.”

“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”

“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.”

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”

“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”

“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.”

“There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.”

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

“The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.”

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”

“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”

“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”