War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.

John Dryden
Some Similar Quotes
  1. War is what happens when language fails. - Margaret Atwood
  2. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Ernest Hemingway
  3. The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. - J.r.r. Tolkien
  4. If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. - Leo Tolstoy
  5. Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. - Anonymous
More Quotes By John Dryden
  1. I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again
  2. But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
  3. Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
  4. Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
  5. For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.
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