126 Quotes by Herman Wouk

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

... a war always ends.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.