Wars Original Generation

Famous quotes containing the words wars, original and/or generation:

    “O how wretched
    Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favors!
    There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
    More pangs and fears than wars or women have;
    And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
    Never to hope again.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)