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The road to Hades is easy to travel.
— Wilfred Bion
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
— Wilfred Burchett
Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds,But here the thing's best left at home with friends. — Wilfred Owen
To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.
— Wilfred Bion
A good leader makes a good follower.
— Wilfred Bion
Little I'd ever teach a son, but hitting, Shooting, war, hunting, all the arts of hurting.
— Wilfred Owen
There's darkness everywhere. You just can't see it because the sun is such an attention-whore.
— Jason Gann
Some say God caught them even before they fell.
— Wilfred Owen
Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.
— Wilfred Funk
I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
— Wilfred Owen
What use will money be to him in the Sands.
— Wilfred Thesiger
When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.
— Wilfred Funk
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
— Wilfred Burchett
Now beginFamines of thought and feeling. — Wilfred Owen
Courage is always the surest wisdom.
— Wilfred Grenfell
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
— Wilfred Grenfell
My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
— Wilfred Burchett
Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.
— Wilfred Owen
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
— Wilfred Owen
Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
— Wilfred Owen
Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.
— Wilfred Owen
She is elegant rather than belle.
— Wilfred Owen
My subject is war, and the pity of war.
— Wilfred Owen
I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
— Wilfred Grenfell
Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say.
— Wilfred A. Peterson
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
— Wilfred Owen
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
— Wilfred Grenfell
The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.
— Wilfred Bion
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
— Wilfred Burchett
No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
— Wilfred Owen
The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
— Wilfred Owen
I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.
— Wilfred Grenfell
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death. — Wilfred Owen
Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.
— Wilfred Trotter
My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest,To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased
On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds. — Wilfred Owen
Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter. — Wilfred Owen
I thought of all that worked dark pitsOf war, and died
Digging the rock where Death reputes
Peace lies indeed. — Wilfred Owen
And some cease feelingEven themselves or for themselves.
Dullness best solves
The tease and doubt of shelling — Wilfred Owen
The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks.
— Wilfred Thesiger
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
— Wilfred Owen
Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.
— Wilfred Burchett
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
— Wilfred Bion
All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
— Wilfred Owen
Move him into the sun-gently its touch awoke him once, — Wilfred Owen
The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
— Wilfred Trotter
The harder the life, the finer the person
— Wilfred Thesiger
Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
— Wilfred Burchett
Bob, I am grateful for yourThree letter name.
It's another reminder of home
Of a world predictable
Of a life I had. — Wilfred Waters
Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
— Wilfred Owen
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
— Wilfred Burchett
Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.
— Wilfred Owen
Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.
— Wilfred Owen
All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
— Wilfred Owen
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
— Wilfred Burchett
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
— Wilfred Owen
Old age is the harbor of all ills.
— Wilfred Bion
Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.
— Wilfred Grenfell
So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.
— Wilfred Owen
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
— Wilfred Owen
Wealth is the sinews of affairs.
— Wilfred Bion
Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.
— Wilfred Bion
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
— Wilfred Owen
For by my glee might many men have laughed,And of my weeping may something have been left,
Which must die now. — Wilfred Owen
Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.
— Wilfred Owen
I tasted freedom and a way of life from which there could be no recall.
— Wilfred Thesiger
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
— Wilfred Bion
Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out. — Wilfred Owen
All a poet can do today is warn.
— Wilfred Owen
He's lost his colour very far from here,Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry — Wilfred Owen
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
— Wilfred Bion
Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full
— Wilfred Thesiger
I craved for the past, resented the present, and dreaded the future.
— Wilfred Thesiger
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
— Wilfred Owen
