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No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.


Croesus of Lydia

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In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
HERODOTUS Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON SR. In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.
HERODOTUS No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons b...
HERODOTUS In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
CROESUS He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'
HERODOTUS Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of pe...
PAUL ROBESON War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury ...
JEH JOHNSON For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
HOMER Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The war affects us here in Newfane. It affects us when our mothers and fathers and sons and daughter...
DAN DEWALT Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend...
VIKRANT PARSAI The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s...
IRIS CHANG Good fathers make good sons
LILLIAN HELLMAN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
CHINESE PROVERB Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
JANE D. HULL And William says, "I lost one son utterly."... ..."So I've held my tongue. But the truth is you didn...
ROBERT OLEN BUTLER Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way t...
BRAYLON EDWARDS Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers
HERBERT KAUFMAN They won’t turn away a father who has come to find his son.
T.K. NALIAKA The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY People have the right to bury their family members in peace. I find it repugnant that anybody would ...
SEN. JEAN SCHODORF Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because so many functions are for fathers and sons, this is for fathers to bring them closer to thei...
EUNICE TUCKER If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; I...
RUDYARD KIPLING We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and ...
MELINA MARCHETTA That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero a...
MARKUS ZUSAK Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But...
ALEKSANDER KAASNIEWSKI my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit...
ERIC RIPERT Kinder machen sich Phantasievorstellungen von ihren Vätern, formen sie sich nach ihren kindlichen B...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Some years later, after Scott’s death, we came my father and I to the Field Museum, a long dismal ...
WALKER PERCY But with all this said, wine was given to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), and one of the duti...
DOUGLAS WILSON Not long after our final lesson, on one of our Sundays at the lake, my father and I were walking alo...
ANNE MICHAELS It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
ZEBULON PIKE If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES BALDWIN If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly countr...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK Without war we can never appreciate peace & without peace there will be no war.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The sins of the Fathers that are visited upon the Sons is not ignorance, but indifference to the tru...
TONNY K. BROWN People talk peace. But men give their life's work to war.
WILL ROGERS We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE Mothers seeing their sons die are not only a very powerful and emotional anti-war face but the one g...
DAN CARTER peace brings ignorance. war brings arrogance. ignorance bings war, war brings arrogance, arrogance b...
THOMAS PRICE Just that sons and fathers
Are like mirrors and daughters are soft
RICHARD L. RATLIFF The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one spo...
MICHAEL LEWIS I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your we...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or ...
CAMERON CONAWAY I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
JOHN GREEN Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who...
LYNN AUSTIN Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face ...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.
AMIT KALANTRI A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fa...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.
SOURCE UNKNOWN In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter...
HERODOTUS This was, I thought, the language of shy men, men too much alone with their reading and their ideas ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT I ask for your support for our brave men fighting tonight halfway around the world, not for territor...
RICHARD M. NIXON I have no peace but there will be no war either
SEAN MAURICE HUNT Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 But sons who are mor...
JOHN CALVIN And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
BIBLE The Farmer and His Sons A father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would...
AESOP I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
PIERCE BROWN The assertion that "culture" explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports...
JOHN TOOBY The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fath...
EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
GEORGE HERBERT One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
GEORGE HERBERT One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father
GEORGE HERBERT A father never gives up on a son, not really, no matter how poorly he behaves at times or how many s...
ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered on...
LOUIS XIV There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans ar...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The future was chaos, war and blood and thirst, ending with everyone's bones bleached white in the d...
BECKY ALLEN In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the sta...
SUN TZU Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize...
MARK MAISH I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole...
TUCKER ELLIOT I say that this war is the joint responsibility of the people and the governments. While the war con...
BIN LADEN As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw ...
ARTHUR MILLER Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens th...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he w...
MARK SLOUKA He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right."
"Who is Mark?"
"A silly little boy who ...
HILARY MANTEL I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly h...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish overca...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on...
BRAD PITT Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be wi...
CINDY CHU Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at th...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They...
ELIZABETH LONSDORF No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Last year we had 55 teams, and we're on pace to break 60 teams this year. We have fathers bringing i...
BRENT GENTRY They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace the...
HENRY A. WALLACE No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure i...
CALVIN COOLIDGE

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LYDIA MARIA CHILD Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and he...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way LYDIA MARIA CHILD Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it sligh...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
LYDIA M. CHILD Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M. CHILD I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as...
LYDIA M. CHILD None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as...
LYDIA M. CHILD You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to con...
LYDIA M. CHILD The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in...
LYDIA M. CHILD A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
LYDIA M. CHILD Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I...
LYDIA M. CHILD Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA M. CHILD That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, m...
LYDIA M. CHILD Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA M. CHILD Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on Unfathomed and r...
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