War and Peace
74 aphorisms · one comment
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41–60 (74)
tiny.ag/sxpzikiy · ★★☆☆ Fair (810 ratings) · submitted 1997
To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden, "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier", in War and Peace
tiny.ag/fiog0z7u · ★★☆☆ Fair (1221 ratings) · submitted 1997
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/ghcdyyrg · ★★☆☆ Fair (973 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/zl0ikbnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (427 ratings) · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
tiny.ag/ypqqlw9y · ★★☆☆ Fair (672 ratings) · submitted 1998
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/2kf4ndl1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (269 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is menstruation envy.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/idqkjfr5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (895 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/zsldl2jb · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/yy2e1ad8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we've used the ones we have?
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/b5lrmegw · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/vykjqus7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/s7ezrvqx · ★★☆☆ Fair (278 ratings) · submitted 1997
It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/xmilhqgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (299 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/4exni0iq · ★★☆☆ Fair (270 ratings) · submitted 1997
Draft beer, not people.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/6gqwgydb · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/la65dtiv · ★★☆☆ Fair (1022 ratings) · submitted 1998
It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/konajjqe · ★★☆☆ Fair (675 ratings) · submitted (updated 25 Apr)
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/xrdfngoo · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/1i8zitnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (892 ratings) · submitted 1998
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
tiny.ag/2flecxec · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
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