Ten Year War

Famous quotes containing the words ten year, ten, year and/or war:

    “As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “And ten low words oft creep in one dull line:”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “The chrysanthemums’ astringent fragrance comes
    Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism
    Of machine within machine within machine.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “[John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)