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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. -- Edmund Spenser
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out. -- Richard Cobden
Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over. -- Heather Mills
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. -- Henry Tizard
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. -- John Bolton
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared. -- Patrick MacGill
The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war. -- Betty Williams
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please" This also became Conrad's epitaph. -- Joseph Conrad
It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup. -- Richard Gehman
As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel. -- Tiffany Madison
When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that. -- Jimmy Wales
It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace -- Danny Glover
After every war someone has to tidy up. -- Wislawa Szymborska
Anyway, there were more after the war than before. -- Hutton Gibson
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse. -- Hugh Bonneville
I grew up in the time of Germany after the war. -- Bernhard Langer
After each war there is a little less democracy to save. -- Brooks Atkinson
We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill. -- Christopher Shays
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War. -- Russell Banks
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. -- Alexander Dubcek
After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more. -- Edward Grey
Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. -- Lloyd Alexander
Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II. -- Kurt Masur
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world. -- Stephen Kinzer
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. -- Rebecca West
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on. -- Robert M. La Follette
News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time. -- Abigail Disney
Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day. -- Nick Turse
Belligerents always abolish war after a war. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Vote for war allowed war only after all else failed. -- Joe Biden
History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war. -- Shigeru Yoshida
I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it. -- Simon Schama
War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization -- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war. -- Elie Wiesel
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. -- Grace Murray Hopper
After each war there is a little less democracy left to save. -- Brooks Atkinson
We had to move forward after the war and see the realities. -- Joschka Fischer
War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war. -- John Rae
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price. -- Salman Rushdie
But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War. -- Wilfred Owen
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. -- Margaret Atwood
Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after. -- William Nathaniel Bell
The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored. -- Gideon Raff
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. -- Otto von Bismarck
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy. -- Loudon Wainwright III
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. -- John S. Mosby
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. -- Sarah Vowell
After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance. -- John Cullum
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. -- Paddy Ashdown
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. -- Barry Commoner
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. -- Chinua Achebe
Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good. -- Robin Williams
10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed? -- Alan Coren
One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. -- Kurt Vonnegut
War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt. -- Samuel B. Pettengill
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded. -- Murray Kempton
It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III. -- Al Yankovic
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. -- Eamon de Valera
After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers. -- Martha Gellhorn
After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films. -- Ivor Novello
War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm. -- Victor Davis Hanson
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?] -- Horace
They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war... -- Anna Komnene
I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that. -- Madeleine Albright
You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people. -- Selma Diamond
For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly. -- Noam Chomsky
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours. -- Norman Finkelstein
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. -- Ariel Gore
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War. -- Kenzaburo Oe
The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends. -- Julian Assange
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. -- George Crumb
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century. -- Stella Blum
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind. -- William Lyon Phelps
After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism. -- Gillian Armstrong
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end. -- Frederic Raphael
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. -- Kingsley Amis
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world. -- Margaret MacMillan
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war. -- Ken Livingstone
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
CNN said that after the war, there is a plan to divide Iraq into three parts: regular, premium and unleaded. -- Jay Leno
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. -- Tony Blair
The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history. -- Bob Crow
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury -- Lee Myung-bak
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. -- Dave Barry
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now. -- Zoe Leonard
Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. -- Ninette de Valois
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. -- Stephen Bayley
When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA. -- Rabih Alameddine
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism. -- Evan Osnos
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do. -- Bill Hicks
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used. -- Naoto Kan
Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after. -- Ogden Nash
When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive. -- David Gemmell
After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace. -- Archibald Percival Wavell
President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war. -- George Carlin
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I. -- Eric Kandel
This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world. -- H. L. Mencken
[Donald] Trump was born on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the first and, thus far, only nuclear weapons were used in war. -- David Krieger
Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose -- Winston Churchill
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. -- Elliott Abrams
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over. -- Nevil Shute
I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War. -- Martin Sheen
Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years. -- Andy Borowitz
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. -- Jan Karon
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war. -- David K. E. Bruce
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds. -- Rand Paul
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War. -- Noam Chomsky
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is. -- Shelby Foote
My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge. -- Eric Idle
Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers. -- Jostein Gaarder
Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation. -- Catherine Camus

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