Recipient World War

Famous quotes containing the words recipient, world and/or war:

    “He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “I saw young Harry with his beaver on,
    His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armed,
    Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury,
    And vaulted with such ease into his seat
    As if an angel dropped down from the clouds
    To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,
    And witch the world with noble horsemanship.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)