Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963
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I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyHang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977