famous quotes about war

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. ~Andre Gide



A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ~Izaak Walton



There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn



Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life. ~Jessi Lane Adams



The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer



All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein



In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ~T.S. Eliot



That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb



The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ~Leonard Bernstein



If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life. ~Mike Ditka



Sic: used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.



Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift.... The hangover comes the day after. ~Joyce Brothers



To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation. ~E.W. Howe



Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man. ~Arthur Helps, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd, 1835



Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. ~James McNeill Whistler, Whistler Versus Ruskin, 1878



True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. ~Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1970



What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? ~W.H. Auden



If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen. ~Martin H. Fischer