#war

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#genial #gift #gives #greatest #greatest gift

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now. ↗

— Brad Bird

#culture #films #going #i #now

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#country #fall #love #makes #people

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#friendship #heart #in print #makes #print

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#books #course #five #forward #given

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#came #could #day #govern #i

While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#brackets #completely #cuts #day #families

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#before #during #election #hunt #lie

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#battlefield #before #dying #ever #eyes

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#even #observes #polite #politeness #rules