Famous quotes containing the words war i, aftermath of, aftermath, world and/or war:
“War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.”
—Ian Hay (1876–1952)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
The world’s at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
The harvest’s ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)