Wars And Battles Quotes

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

Battle... brings out all that is best.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.