That's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die—and the difference is just an eyelash.
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.
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.
"Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness..."
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried.
Hobbes clearly proves that every creature
Lives in a state of war by nature.