Alliance Quotes

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. (George Bernard Shaw)
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. View quote
Ogden Nash
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty. View quote
Frances Burney
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. View quote
Sydney Smith
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized. View quote
H. Rap Brown
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not. View quote
Ron Kind
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars. (Fidel Castro)
To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done. View quote
Robert Jordan
[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack. View quote
Austen Chamberlain
Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world. View quote
James Connolly
Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance. View quote
Rudolf Rocker
Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day. View quote
Francisco Franco
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? View quote
Oscar Wilde
The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster. View quote
Walid Jumblatt
Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other. View quote
Thucydides
Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country. View quote
Denis Diderot
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts. He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling. (Herbert Read)
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. View quote
Maurice Maeterlinck
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism. View quote
Hillary Clinton