Quotations About / On: PEACE

  • 41.
    All you that kiss my Lady Peace at home.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff, in Henry IV, Part 2, act 1, sc. 2, l. 207-8. To the Chief Justice, as Falstaff goes off to fight rebels.)
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  • 42.
    Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.
    (Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. letter to Thomas H. Hicks and George W. Brown, Apr. 20, 1861. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 4, p. 340, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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  • 43.
    Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
    (Georg Büchner (1813-1837), German dramatist, revolutionary. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1994). The Hessian Messenger (1834). Büchner translates a motto of the French Revolution by Nicolas Chamfort: "Guerre aux châteaux! Paix aux chaumières!...")
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  • 44.
    "Now haud thy peace!" the lady said,
    "For as I say, so must it be."
    (Unknown. Thomas the Rhymer (l. 75-76). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 45.
    With the narcotic milk of peace for men
    Who find Thy beautiful center ...
    (Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Firstly inclined to take what it is told.")
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  • 46.
    Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.
    (Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14. The line "their name liveth for evermore" was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.)
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  • 47.
    Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
    (Peter Nicols (b. 1927), British playwright. Independent (London, September 1, 1990).)
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  • 48.
    I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
    (François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Grandgousier, in Gargantua, ch. 28, p. 83, Pleiade edition (1995).)
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  • 49.
    They make a wilderness and call it peace.
    (Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.)
    (Tacitus (c. 55-120), Roman historian. Tacitus, in Agricola, sect. 30. Quoting the British chief Calgalus, speaking of the Romans.)
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  • 50.
    Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find, just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.
    (Stuart Gorrell (d. 1963), U.S. songwriter. "Georgia on My Mind," Southern Music Publishing Co. (1930). Music composed by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981).)
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