The Best Life Quotes-Top Twenty Quotations on War

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By ronaldoh

The War Quotes

"All is fair in love and war" is one of lifes great sayings, I suppose in life the two are easily compared.Here then is a fairly good collection of quotes on war!

All Quotes and Quotations

War Quotations

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them. John Fowles.

France , though armed to the teeth, is pacifist to the core. Winston Churchill.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason. Henry Mencken

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield. Buddha.

War is not nice.  Barbara Bush.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. F.E .Adcock.

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.  Oliver Cromwell

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.  George Orwell.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.Jaques Chirac.

It takes 150,000 casualties to train a major general.  Marshal Ferdinand Foch.

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The Lord is man of war. Exodus 15:3

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. Adolf Hitler.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.Ernest Hemmingway.

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. Charles Sumner.

War is cruelty.there is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over. William.T. Sherman.

There will never be a nuclear war there is no real estate involved. Frank Zappa.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others. Miguel Cerbantes.

The condition of man...is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.Thomas Hobbes.

Being in the army is like being in the boy scouts, except the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.Blake Clarke.

The world began with war ,and will end with war. Arabic proverb.

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