Quotes About Resolution

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

War ought to be no man's wish.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

One would think that man would run out of wars.

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.