Subject: Conflict » War (Page 3)

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

(1906 – 1975) German-born American political theorist

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

(1867 – 1928) English journalist & novelist

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

Going to war over religion, is basically just killing people in an argument over who has the better imaginary friend.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat.

Diplomats tell lies to journalists, and they believe what they read.

(1874 – 1936) Austrian writer & journalist

The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.


(1934 – 2012) American army general

God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.

(1618 – 1693) French memoirist

Madonna said that we should pull all of our troops out of Iraq; Donald Rumsfeld said, "No, I think we'd better wait and hear what Britney Spears has to say about it first.”

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

God invented football so grown men would have something to do between wars.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife’s brother.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

Peace: Co-existence or no no existence.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Starting a war in the name of peace is like poking a hole in a balloon to get more air into it.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

'Bush and Son: Leading America to War Since 1990.'

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.


(1885 – 1945) U.S. Army general