It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
Homer
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
GEORGE S. PATTON The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
GENERAL PATTERSON (WWII) It shows the kind of man he is. To allow any emotion would be unseemly for him,
RALPH FIENNES There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......l...
ENSON INOUE A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
RITA RUDNER The Democrats of the Sixties were all about making love and not war while a war-loving Republican is...
MICHELE ZIPP Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indi...
HAILE SELASSIE A man fighting for his life.
TOM O'CONNOR A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
RITA RUDNER I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER If a country is worth living in, it is worth fighting for.
MANNING COLES What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?
EMMELINE PANKHURST It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER A Christian man should not strive to die for his family. Rather, he should live for his family.
JAIME CONTRERAS Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid f...
H. L. MENCKEN Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid fo...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
GEORGE S. PATTON A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ...
G.K. CHESTERTON It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees.
EMILIANO ZAPATA We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmiss...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it?...
STEVE TOLTZ Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for ...
GEORGE SMITH PATTON No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for ...
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. H...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Everybody in the country is fighting for their lives.
DAVE LEITAO No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some othe...
GEORGE S. PATTON JR. I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me.
NEIL KINNOCK I'd rather die fighting for justice than die of natural causes.
DONNA J. ZUK I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living.
BETHANY WIGGINS If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...
HORATIO NELSON It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE In most kung fu films, they want to create a hero who's always fighting a bad guy. In the story ...
WONG KAR-WAI A man who would fight externally and die for his family, although noble, has chosen the easy option....
RODNEY LOVELL I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON The American backwoodsman -- clad in his hunting shirt, the product of his domestic industry, and fi...
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard ...
SAMUEL ADAMS For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Ju...
AESCHYLUS Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
JOE BIDEN Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
HORACE If you die fighting, I want to die fighting with you.
MELANIE DICKERSON This homer is even more important than the one I hit for the Marlins in the World Series. This was f...
ALEX GONZALEZ A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
MARTIN A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies...
MARK TWAIN An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without ...
HENRY WOTTON, SR. An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without ...
HENRY WOTTON SR. The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger
than all fighting.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
PERCIVAL ARLAND USSHER A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.
ANTHONY LICCIONE There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most hone...
MARTIN VAN BUREN A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
ALI TALIB A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB To a brave man every soil is his country.
UNKNOWN A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country
EDGAR WATSON HOWE A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
E. W. HOWE Berlusconi is a man fighting against the whole country. I don't know how he can govern Italy in this...
MASSIMO D'ALEMA He has a plausible defense; he could say he's fighting for his constituency, and that's true in larg...
ALEX KNOTT Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
FRAN LEBOWITZ The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
HENRY WOTTON, SR. An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
HENRY WOTTON SR. The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth...
STONEWALL JACKSON The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth...
THOMAS J. JACKSON Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but ...
ANDREW JACKSON Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting ...
SHANNON L. ALDER I discovered a rare man. In days of confused identities, this man knew who he was. Nothing could det...
JIMMY ALLEN That young man will either be killed by you or he will spend the rest of his life in prison in a cou...
DAVID BAUGH Those young people in Afghanistan are not fighting for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party....
DICK GEPHARDT It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting...
CHRIS KYLE I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
HOMER SIMPSON a man of deep convictions. He was a plain- spoken fellow who did his best for his state and for his ...
PAUL WELLSTONE It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means t...
TERRY PRATCHETT It just seems a little unseemly for them to be considering pay raises. That's an arrogant situation ...
BOB KESSLER Man's Search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization'...
VICTOR FRANKL So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of...
BIBLE If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear t...
OSCAR WILDE An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
HENRY WOTTON A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLI A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLIERE The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.
GEORGE HERBERT In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but world...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is ju...
PRIMO LEVI You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond fi...
JOSEPH CONRAD It is of major importance for the future of our country that through his defense and the fact he die...
IVICA DACIC Hezbollah is not fighting for Syria. Hezbollah is not fighting for Iran. Hezbollah is fighting for L...
HASSAN NASRALLAH [If this call is neglected] I am determined to sustain myself for as long as possible, and die like ...
WILLIAM BARRETT TRAVIS The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There is truth in stories,” said Arthur. “There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a s...
CASSANDRA CLARE
More Homer
It is not right to glory in the slain.
HOMER Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
HOMER The rose Dawn might have found them weeping still had not grey-eyed Athena slowed the night when nig...
HOMER There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, ...
HOMER For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother
HOMER The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
HOMER Light is the task where many share the toil.
HOMER And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
HOMER A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
HOMER Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
HOMER I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
HOMER How vain, without the merit, is the name.
HOMER Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a sing...
HOMER Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
HOMER A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly.
HOMER At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,
Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:
Then,...
HOMER For too much rest becomes a pain.
HOMER There will be killing till the score is paid.
HOMER Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
HOMER The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
HOMER Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
HOMER The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gen...
HOMER Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught th...
HOMER Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
HOMER Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
HOMER The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, ...
HOMER The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
HOMER A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
HOMER Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
HOMER The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
HOMER For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...
HOMER A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
HOMER Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
HOMER It is not good to have a rule of many.
HOMER To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...
HOMER In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
HOMER Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from th...
HOMER True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
HOMER Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
HOMER Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
HOMER The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
HOMER Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
HOMER There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
HOMER Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
HOMER But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp con...
HOMER Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint ...
HOMER …There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—mag...
HOMER Winged words.
HOMER At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince!...
HOMER It is a wise child that knows his own father.
HOMER A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
HOMER The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
HOMER The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
HOMER You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
HOMER Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
HOMER We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
HOMER There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the...
HOMER The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
HOMER So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor ...
HOMER Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the ...
HOMER May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a ho...
HOMER Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they th...
HOMER It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
HOMER It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You...
HOMER I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood ...
HOMER Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
HOMER Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee co...
HOMER Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, a...
HOMER It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
HOMER It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
HOMER It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his de...
HOMER If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
HOMER I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
HOMER He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when h...
HOMER He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
HOMER Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the sam...
HOMER A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
HOMER A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, w...
HOMER A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and...
HOMER A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
HOMER It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to ...
HOMER I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
HOMER Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
HOMER Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. F...
HOMER By their own follies they perished, the fools.
HOMER All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
HOMER All men have need of the gods.
HOMER A small rock holds back a great wave.
HOMER Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both...
HOMER You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has giv...
HOMER Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselv...
HOMER There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
HOMER There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
HOMER Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
HOMER Do not mourn the dead with the belly
HOMER Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
HOMER And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
HOMER All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious
HOMER Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told s...
HOMER Far and near friends knew this house; for he whose home it was had much acquaintance in the world
HOMER The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
HOMER Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that s...
HOMER No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he ...
HOMER Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you.
As there are no trustworthy oaths between...
HOMER Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure…
For al...
HOMER But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, nev...
HOMER Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do every...
HOMER And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing ...
HOMER We ask that (employees) take care of your personal business as needed. Should you require more time ...
HOMER Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across...
HOMER Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
HOMER How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
HOMER I'm satisfied. It's straight, ... But it's just so hot, and I'm just so frustrated.
HOMER There is nothing nothing more nobler or more admirable than two
people who see eye to eye keeping ho...
HOMER Wisdom never lies
HOMER By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
HOMER Achilles absent, was Achilles still
HOMER A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly
HOMER …and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you ...
HOMER Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet ...
HOMER Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
HOMER Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
HOMER Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than war
HOMER [I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at ...
HOMER He went off without a word along the shore of the sounding sea.
HOMER For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and...
HOMER They would eat its blossoms and stalks in the spring, ... And use its fiber to make rabbit nets, san...
HOMER Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured
HOMER Too many kings can ruin an army
HOMER But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of w...
HOMER By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember
HOMER [B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals.
The sinews no longer hold the fle...
HOMER Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...
HOMER down from his brow
she ran his curls
like thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms
HOMER Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.
HOMER These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them,
or he can enjoy listening to storie...
HOMER Immortals are never alien to one another.
HOMER So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all....
HOMER out of sight,out of mind
HOMER Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
HOMER And empty words are evil.
HOMER Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his de...
HOMER some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind
HOMER Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
HOMER My name is Nobody.
HOMER Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themsel...
HOMER Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their mis...
HOMER Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
HOMER Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.
HOMER A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a t...
HOMER There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HOMER Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...
HOMER The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy ...
HOMER …but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
HOMER There was one on Kentucky Avenue that sunk so much that a lady couldn't even get out of her driveway...
HOMER When your design stinks, Engineering 101 says admit your mistakes and go back to the drawing board,
HOMER After the event, even a fool is wise
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen but his country's cause
HOMER I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another
HOMER The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
HOMER What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...
HOMER ...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glit...
HOMER For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...
HOMER Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
HOMER Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HOMER I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see th...
WINSLOW HOMER Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.
HOMER SIMPSON It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
HOMER HICKAM The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.
WINSLOW HOMER I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to ...
HOMER HICKAM I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by an...
WINSLOW HOMER That's another way we can support the program.
CARL HOMER The exponential costs of Medicaid are increasing at a rate they probably can't afford.
CARL HOMER You can't play with one hand in this business at all. You have to be really focused.
CARL HOMER At this time we're not prepared to devote the kind of resources needed to succeed. Not in the forese...
CARL HOMER Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil pi...
WINSLOW HOMER A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse.
HOMER HICKAM Mmm... Organized Crime
HOMER SIMPSON 'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
HOMER SIMPSON Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
WINSLOW HOMER You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of o...
WINSLOW HOMER The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and...
HOMER SIMPSON I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get th...
WINSLOW HOMER It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 ...
HOMER SIMPSON Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time &...
WINSLOW HOMER Trying is the first step towards failure". - Homer Simpson
HOMER SIMPSON Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?
HOMER SIMPSON Jebus, Buddha, I love you alllllllllllllllllll
HOMER SIMPSON Stupid Flounders!
HOMER SIMPSON We have learn't a very valuable leasson today: it's better to watch stuff then to do stuff.
HOMER SIMPSON Just because i don't listen doesn't mean i don't understand.
HOMER SIMPSON If you're going to get mad at me everytime I do something stupid then I guess I'll have to stop doin...
HOMER SIMPSON Marge, don’t discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separa...
HOMER SIMPSON