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| A foreign war is preferable to one at home. Petrarch. | 1 |
| At the wars do as they do at the wars. French. | 2 |
| But war’s a game, which, were their subjects wise kings would not play at. Cowper. | 3 |
| Civil war is a hideous and repugnant thing. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 4 |
| Even war is better than a wretched peace. Tacitus. | 5 |
| Every milder method is to be tried before a nation makes an appeal to arms. Kent. | 6 |
| Good kings never make war but for the sake of peace. | 7 |
| He that makes a good war makes a good peace. | 8 |
| He that preacheth up war when it might well be avoided, is the devil’s chaplain. | 9 |
| He who has land has war. Italian. | 10 |
| In time of war the devil makes more room in hell. German. | 11 |
| In war according to war. French. | 12 |
| In war it is best to tie your horse to a strange manger. Danish. | 13 |
| In war reputation is strength. Ellenborough. | 14 |
| In war-time there is pay for every horse. Italian. | 15 |
| It is a bad war from which no one returns. German. | 16 |
| Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. | 17 |
| Many return from the war who cannot give an account of the battle. Italian. | 18 |
| Of all wars peace ought to be the end. | 19 |
| One war brings on another. German. | 20 |
| Talk of the war but do not go to it. Spanish. | 21 |
| That war is only just which is necessary. | 22 |
| The fear of war is worse than war itself. Italian. | 23 |
| The hardest operation of war is to stop it. | 24 |
| There never was a good war nor a bad peace. Franklin. | 25 |
| To die or conquer are the terms of war. Homer. | 26 |
| War begun, hell unchained. Italian. | 27 |
| War gives no opportunity for repeating a mistake. | 28 |
| War is a proceeding that ruins those who succeed. | 29 |
| War is death’s feast. | 30 |
War is no strife
To the dark house or the detested wife. Shakespeare. | 31 |
| War is pleasure to him who does not go to it. German, Portuguese. | 32 |
| War is the son of hell. Shakespeare. | 33 |
| War makes robbers and peace hangs them. French, Italian. | 34 |
| War must be waged by waking men. | 35 |
| War ought to be neither dreaded nor provoked. Latin. | 36 |
| War should be so managed as to remember that the only end of it is peace. Cicero. | 37 |
| War to the knife. (Polafox’s answer to the French general at the siege of Saragoza.) | 38 |
| War with all the world and peace with England. Spanish. | 39 |
War’s a brain-spattering, wind-pipe-slitting art,
Unless her cause by right be sanctified. Byron. | 40 |
| Wars bring scars. | 41 |
| When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war. | 42 |
| When war begins hell’s gates are set open. | 43 |
| When war is raging the laws are dumb. Cicero. | 44 |
| When you go to war every man you meet is an enemy;—kill all. North American Indian. | 45 |
| Where money and counsel are wanting it is better not to make war. Danish. | 46 |
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