Ten Year War

Famous quotes containing the words ten year, ten, year and/or war:

    Smile and feel ten years younger; worry and get grey hair.
    Chinese proverb.

    Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.
    Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886)

    A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)