Subject: Conflict (Page 9)

Here's to Johnny quite a guy. Very sad he had to die. All was well could not be better, Till he wrote my girl a letter.

Recoilless rifles – aren’t.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Give him an inch and he'll screw you.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

(c. 620 – 564 BC) Greek slave and author of over 600 fables

The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host

The United States has developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing; it's called the stock market.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

Peace: Co-existence or no no existence.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

I hate traveling, I guess ’cause my dad used to beat me with a globe.

(1965 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

I know we were buddies because he threatened to kill me on no fewer than three occasions, and he did that only to his friends.

(1935) British film director, producer & food critic

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel; this is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

(1948 – ) English novelist

You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

The complexity of a weapon is inversely proportional to the IQ of the weapon's operator.

The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that its against the law.

Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.

It’s better to be tried by twelve men than to be carried by six.

My wife and I had words – but I never got to use mine.

Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.

One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all take off our shoes at the airport; thirty-one school shootings since Columbine and no change in our regulation of guns.

(1977 – ) British political comedian & television host

Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.