Arthur Koestler – Friendship Quotes – a large collection of famous and inspirational quotes

Famous Quotes

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“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pine

“The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers” – Arthur Koestler

“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.” – Chinese Proverb

“I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.” – Johnny Depp

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” – Unknown

“A genius is one who can do anything except make a living” – Joey Lauren Adams

“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve go” – Jim Rohn

“It’s a little like religion and a lot like sex – you should never know when you’re going to get some next.” – Jimmy Buffett

“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.” – Unknown

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde

“Google before you tweet is the new think before you speak.” – Jennifer Brownhill

“We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.” – Unknown

“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.” – Bill Cosby

“There is no limit to the good one can do, when he cares not who gets the credit.” – Unknown

“If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at one, I will” – Mother Teresa

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life” – William Osler

War Quotes

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– “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell

– “It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.” – Unknown

– “I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, «Mother, what was war?»” – Eve Merriam

– “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” – Albert Einstein

– “The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” – David Friedman

– “«There are no atheists in foxholes» isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.” – James Morrow

– “Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.” – Colonel Potter

– “All the arms we need are for hugging.” – Unknown

– “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” – Napoleon

– “A great war leaves the country with three armies – an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.” – German Proverb

– “The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.” – Arthur Koestler

– “Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” – Colman McCarthy

– “Draft beer, not people.” – Bob Dylan

– “The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

– “War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” – John F. Kennedy

– “What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.” – Unknown

– “Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people – and kill them.” – Pacifist Badge, 1978

– “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” – Ernest Hemingway

– “War makes thieves and peace hangs them.” – George Herbert

– “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” – Jeanette Rankin

– “You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.” – David Lloyd George

– “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.” – Carl Sandburg

– “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – José Narosky

– “We kind o’ thought Christ went agin war an’ pillage.” – James Russell Lowell