Boyish Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image “All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boyish Boys Conflict War
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate--… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die. — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do.. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I'm boyish with a feminine twist. I definitely gravitate toward oversized things like shirts and jackets. I like a good trouser, but then I… — Jacquelyn Jablonski Copy Share Image
Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm… — Vanessa Marcil Copy Share Image
It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
I'm very moody, so I dress for whatever mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to be a little more boyish and flowy and comfortable.… — Banks Copy Share Image
I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish… — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
