"Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down……" — Herman Wouk
"Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand."
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36 Quotes by Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk has 36 quotes on this site.
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens,…
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This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
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Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
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I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
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Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young…
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War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad…
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The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find…
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Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you…
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My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we…
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The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we…
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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library.…
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I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.
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