L'ingratitude attire les reproches comme la reconnaissance attire de nouveaux bienfaits.
Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
I never saw any one like him. He is steel! He would go through you like a sword!
Victory won by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.
Little generals and painted gods raise armies to waste lives and goods and spoil the sacred earth.
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
Whoever does not express his gratitude to people will never be grateful to God.
It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.