Ten Year War

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

    “What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun ...”
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    “By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.”
    —Maggie Kuhn (b. 1905)

    “‘Yes; quaint and curious war is!
    You shoot a fellow down
    You’d treat if met where any bar is,
    Or help to half-a-crown.’”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)