It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Solomon Short Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: cliches Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: power writing fools Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: war history humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: cliches Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: power writing fools Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: war history humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “war” Either war is obsolete or men are. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace. —Robert E. Lee More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? —Omar Bradley More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. —Mao Tse-Tung More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Either war is obsolete or men are. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace. —Robert E. Lee More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? —Omar Bradley More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. —Mao Tse-Tung More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email