Ten Year War

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

    “Oh, the army. Well I planted twenty-four gardens the first ten years of our marriage. Never stayed long enough to see a single bloom.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    “A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,
    Which is as brief as I have known a play,
    But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,
    Which makes it tedious.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A man I praise that once in Tara’s Halls
    Said to the woman on his knees, “Lie still,
    My hundredth year is at an end. I think
    That something is about to happen, I think
    That the adventure of old age begins....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?”
    —Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986)