Quotes About The Peloponnesian War

#1. Ridiculous! Why don't you go into gunrunning, and sell the ancient Athenians a couple of machine guns so they can win the Peloponnesian War?

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Here is history seen, endured, and created at the same time ... .. If you believe only that which you know to be true, you will trouble yourself with very little belief."
On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" in "Fifty Literary Pillars".

William H Gass

#3. When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Hoffman

#4. She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.

Peter F. Hamilton

#5. Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write.

Robin M. Helm

#6. I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

Lisa Bonet

#7. Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.

Sathya Sai Baba

#8. We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

George Steiner

#9. The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it.

Bob McNair

#10. I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

Karlie Kloss