Quotes

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  • If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, only intense negotiations every 28 days. – Robin Williams

  • There’s two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. – Unknown

  • Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford’s lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. – Jane Fonda

  • One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. – Edgar Watson Howe

  • For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. – Rudyard Kipling

  • A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. – Jane Austen

  • Wild animals never kill for sport.  Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself. – James Anthony Froude

  • In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock. – Oscar Wilde

  • Kill a man and you are a murderer, kill millions of men and you are a conqueror, kill everyone and you are a God. – Jean Rostand

  • In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. – Herodotus

  • As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde

  • War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Unknown