Battle Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

— Lady Gregory

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

— C. S. Lewis

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

— T. S. Eliot

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Everyone knows what toothache's like: it's one of those dull pains that just won't go away.

— Andrew Robertson

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

— Simon Schama

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

— T. E. Lawrence

Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.

— Edward Thomas

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

— Anonymous

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

— Anonymous

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

— Grenville Kleiser