Quote by George Orwell
Serious sport is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

Other quotes by George Orwell

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. – George Orwell

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. – Ruth Benedict

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If it hadnt been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. – James Lovelock

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Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. – Howard Dean

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I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then. – Sharon Stone

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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women. – Fanny Kemble

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. – Benjamin Franklin

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My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins. – Eric McCormack

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The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight — And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end. – Emma Carleton

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