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But if We have such another victory, we are undone.[Pyrrhus--[attributed to him by Bacon]} Victory, with advantage, is rather robbed than purchased. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) You win the victory when you yield to friends. - Sophocles "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 'twas a famous victory." - Robert Southey, Battle of Blenheim "It was the English," Kaspar cried, "Who put the French to rout; But what they fought each other for I could not well make out; But everybody said," quoth he, "That 'twas a famous victory." * * * * * "They said it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. - Robert Southey, The Battle of Blenheim The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. - Oswald Spengler I love victory, but I love not triumph. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. [Lat., Victores victosque numquam solida fide coalescere.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (bk. II, 7) To prefer victory to peace. [Lat., Victoriam malle quam pacem.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (bk. III, 60) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat. - attributed to Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, ascribed to D'Argensonby as reported by Grimm, see Emerson "Quotation and Originality" The smile of God is victory. - John Greenleaf Whittier It must be a peace without victory. . . . Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser; a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last: only a peace, the very principle of which is equality, and a common participation in a common benefit. - Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in an address to the U.S. Senate Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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