Hundred Years War/second Peace - 1389%e2%80%931415

Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or peace:

    The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalms 90:10.

    The Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

    And God would bid His warfare cease,
    Saying all things were well;
    And softly make a rosy peace,
    A peace of Heaven with Hell.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)