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War
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
TERENCE
Nothing excepts a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEY
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
WILDE, OSCAR
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign… Secondly, a just cause… Thirdly a rightful intention.
St. Thomas Aquinas
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people
Edmund Burke
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.
Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill
….war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.
Karl Von Clausewitz
I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, becuase your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in war, get everything you need and win it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
Gerald R. Ford
This war, like the next war, is a war to end war.
David Lloyd George
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Samuel Johnson
That’s the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die and the difference is just an eyelash.
Douglas Macarthur
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
Richard M. Nixon
Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
John Parker
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.
Unknown
Weather
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
AUSTEN, JANE
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace.
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
DONNE, JOHN
This is the weather the cuckoos like
And so do I.
HARDY, THOMAS
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. Henry
Climate is theory. Weather is condition.
Oliver Herford
I wonder that any human being should remain in a cold country who could find room in a warm one.
Thomas Jefferson
Winning
Lose who may—I still can say,
Those who win heaven, blest are they!
BROWNING, ROBERT
She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
MEREDITH, GEORGE
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
POPE, ALEXANDER
If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
Winston Churchill
Whoever can surprise well must Conquer.
John Paul Jones
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
Red Sanders
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
Woodrow Wilson
Wisdom
Knowledge is proud that he has learn’d so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
COWPER, WILLIAM
One man’s wit, and all men’s wisdom.
RUSSELL, JOHN
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.
Aristophanes
Ask counsel of both times—of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
Francis Bacon
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias
Wisdom don’t consist in knowing more that is new, but in knowing less that is false.
Josh Billings
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter
It is good to meet and drink at the fountains of wisdom inherited from the founding fathers of the republic.
Warren G. Harding
Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers catch quickly what is said and faithfully reatain it.
Horace
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise, wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
Wives
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
AUSTEN, JANE
Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
DRYDEN, JOHN
Daughter am I in my mother’s house, But mistress in my own.
KIPLING, RUDYARD
O man and woman…proclaim amongst the wise your intention of entering married life. Converse together happily living in a peaceful home, spoil not your life, spoil not your progeny. In this world, pass your life happily, on this wide earth full of
enjoyment!
YAJUR VEDA
Let there be faithfulness to each other until death. This, in short, should be known as the highest duty of husband and wife.
MANU SMRITI
Home is not what is made of wood and stone; but where a wife is, there is the home.
NITI MANJARI
He who is without a wife dwells without blessing, life, joy, help, good, and peace.
THE TALMUD
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there
ANDREW JACKSON
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANT
The destinies of women can be extremely diverse. Some have freedom and power while others only survive. What they have in common, however, is a awakening sense of their potential political influence.
CHANTAL BAULANGER
More women are pro-peace because they care about life.
VANDANA SHIVA
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organise the really important things of life.
ALICE ELLIS
Women
The woman that deliberates is lost.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
ADDISON, JOSEPH
It’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have.
BARRIE, SIR JAMES MATTHEW
Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
BIERCE, AMBROSE
The two things that a healthy person hates most between heaven and hell are a woman who is not dignified and a man who is.
CHESTEERTON, GILBERT KEITH
Women’s rougher, simpler, more upright judgement embraces 2the whole truth, which their tact, their mistrust of masculine idealism, ever prevents them from speaking in its entirety.
CONRAD, JOSEPH
An experience of women which extends over many nations and three separate continents.
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN
It is woman that seduces all mankind,
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
GAY, JOHN
One wife is too much for most husbands to hear
But two at a time there’s no mortal can bear.
GAY, JOHN
The two divinest things this world has got,
A lovely woman in a rural spot!
HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
KIPLING, RUDYARD
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word.
LYTTON Lord
Still an angel appear to each lover beside,
But still be a woman to you.
PARNELL, THOMAS
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;
But every woman is at heart a rake.
POPE, ALEXANDER
Woman’s at best a contradiction still.
POPE, ALEXANDER
She stood, a sight to make an old man young.
TENNYSON Lord
This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes.
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
It is strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
A fickle and changeable thing is woman ever.
VIRGIL
Words
Turn up the lights; I don’t want to go home in dark.
HENRY, O.
For words are wise men’s counters they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
HOBBES, THOMAS
What a word has escaped the barrier of thy teeth!
HOMER
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
Words are men’s daughters, but God’s sons are things.
MADDEN, SAMUEL
These are thy glorious words, Parent of Good!
MILTON, JOHN
Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen.
MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
POPE, ALEXANDER
His purse is empty already; all’s golden words are spent.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Men of few words are the best men.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
SWIFT, JONATHAN
I am not arguing with you—I am telling you.
WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT Mc NEILL
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these; ‘It might have been!’
WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF
Work
Work is the grand cure of all the malodies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
CARLYLE, THOMAS
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
CHURCHILL , WINSTON
A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
CONRAD, JOSEPH
Dialect works—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
HARDY, THOMAS
The half is more than the whole.
HESIOD
He who has begun has half done.
HORACE
A fair little girl sat under a tree,
Sewing as long as her eyes could see;
Then smoothed her work, and folded it right,
And said, ‘Dear work, good-night, good-night.’
HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
INGERSOLL, ROBERT GREEN
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands.
HORATIO NELSON
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
POPE, ALEXANDER
The need of the hour is for the ruled and the rulers to work together.
L K ADVANI
World
The verdict of the world is final.
AUGUSTINE
The world is a bubble; and the life of man less than a span.
BACON, FRANCIS
It’s a weary world, and nobody bides in’t.
BARRIE, SIR JAMES MATTHEW
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
BIRKENHEAD, FREDERICK EDWIN SMITH
To see a World in a grain of sand,
And Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.
BLAKE, WILLIAM
Who knows but the world may end to-night?
BROWNING, ROBERT
But the world is more full of glory
Than you can understand.
CHESTEERTON, GILBERT KEITH
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY
This world consists of men, women and Herveys.
MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY
Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.
OXENSTIERNA, AXEL GUSTAFSSON, COUNT
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Globalisation is not a one way street.
KAMAL NATH
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls….
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
I was always fascinated by the world—not just by my
immediate environment, but by the world at large.
SHASHI THAROOR
Writing
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
BACON, FRANCIS
But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other’s sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think’s sufficient at one time.
BUTLER, SAMUEL
And, since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL
A man may write any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
When you are writing children’s books, you need to be a ruthless killer.
J K ROWLING