![]() "The subject of it is War, and the Pity of War." "Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry," "For what can war but endless war still breed?" When have they not done and said they did it for that?" "O I know they make war because they want peace they hate so that they may live and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. "He that makes a good war makes a good peace" "War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading" "There was never a good war, or a bad peace" "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed" "War is nothing but the continuation of politics by other means" Went to war with an air, as if they went to a ball -Stephen Vincent Benét.War will disappear, like the dinosaur, when changes in world conditions have destroyed its survival value -Robert A.War is like an aging actress more and more dangerous, and less and less photogenic -Robert Capa.Success in war, like charity in religion, covers a multitude of sins -Lord Napier.Marrying in wartime is like sowing among thorns -Ignazio Silone See Also: MARRIAGE.Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done -Christian Nestell Bovee.Being a soldier was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players’ own parents and friends -Dan Wakefield.The beginning of war is like the first days of peace: neither the world nor our hearts know they are there -Jane Wagner.The art of war is like the art of the courtesan indeed, they might be called sisters, since both are the slaves of desperation -Pietro Aretino. ![]()
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