55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division - Battles

Famous quotes containing the word battles:

“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“Fasten your hair with a golden pin,
And bind up every wandering tress;
I bade my heart build these poor rhymes:
It worked at them, day out, day in,
Building a sorrowful loveliness
Out of the battles of old times.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)