Peace Quotes

“I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.”

“Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.”

“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”

“Lose yourself in nature and find peace”

“Truth hath a quiet breast.”

“Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.”

“Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!”

“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.”

“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.”

“On your eyelids crown the god of sleep,Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleepAs is the difference betwixt day and nightThe hour before the heavenly-harness'd teamBegins his golden progress in the east.”

“Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.”

“Better be with the dead,Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,Than on the torture of the mind to lieIn restless ecstasy.”

“Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;And now, instead of mounting barbed steedsTo fright the souls of fearful adversaries,He capers nimbly in a lady's chamberTo the lascivious pleasing of a lute.”

“But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleepIn the affliction of these terrible dreamsThat shake us nightly.”

“So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!”

“Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.”

“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.”

“Good words are better than bad strokes.”

“If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.”

“What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.”

“I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.”

“So shaken as we are, so wan with care,Find we a time for frighted peace to pantAnd breathe short-winded accents of new broilsTo be commenced in stronds afar remote.”

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”

“That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.”