Quotes on Wars And Battles

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Battle... brings out all that is best.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.