Famous Quotes

"Business is a combination of war and sport."

Andre Maurois on War

More quotes about War

• "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

• "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

  Albert Einstein on War

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

  Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by Andre Maurois

• "Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form."

• "Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul."

• "An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."

• "Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."

• "Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record."