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War Boys Quotes & Sayings

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Lovely high ceilings,' I said. 'If you were very tall, you'd feel quite comfortable in here. — Phoebe Stone

Boys are the cash of war. — John Ciardi

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane. — Bob Dylan

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm. — J.D. Salinger

As I remember, the worst result of a World War II block was a flood of Argentine Gin. Sensitive martini-boys and Gibson-girls still shudder ... — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

Holy shit . . . They'd joined the war. — J.R. Ward

Youth must its ignorant impulse lend--
Age finds place in the rear.
All wars are boyish and are fought by boys — Herman Melville

Let the boy win his spurs. — Edward III Of England

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like. — John Ciardi

Stirred...the fur-toothed graves of young boys...a thousand slain in the time it would take to do love with a pretty girl or think of a new God. — Kenneth Patchen

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys. — Penelope Lively

Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. — Wilfred Owen

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead. — Ken Gillespie

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. — William T. Sherman

Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. — Philip Caputo

I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today. — John F. Kerry

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks? — Lowkey

Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace. — Arundhati Roy

Boys have always had to go to war — J.D. Salinger

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's many a boy here today that looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.

General William T. Sherman, Address, 1880 — John Podlaski

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell! — William Tecumseh Sherman

You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot — Shelby Foote

Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me? — Lewis Armistead

Boys, at war, so far away, will naturally droop, both in body and mind, from lack of a particular girl's snuggling and cuddling. — Ernest Vincent Wright

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war. — Esther Forbes

The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me. — Courtney Love

Boys have never been to war. It's easy to believe that it's all a game. That the dead will get up off the grass in time for tea. — Charles Todd

Boys dream of war. But men can dream of peace. — David Talbot

In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army. — Smedley D. Butler