Quotes
Quotes about Fight
For this is England's greatest son,
He that gained a hundred fights,
And never lost an English gun.
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright;
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.
When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du
Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
No dream his life was--but a fight!
Could any Beatrice see
A lover in that anchorite?
They only the victory win
Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within;
Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high;
Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight--if need be, to die.
The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.
I purpose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's height
Is not so sweet and white
As the most heretofore sin-spotted Soul
That darts to its delight
Straight from the absolution of a faithful fight.
Nor love they least
Who strike with right good will
To vanquish ill
And fight God's battle upward from the beast.
Who would not rather founder in the fight
Than not have known the glory of the fray?
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man.
The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?"
Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone."
To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting."
After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws."
He who flees will fight again.
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out in to fight for freedom.
Fight the good fight.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
The establishment rejected him. And it was because heâd had the guts to fight and get gassed, while the rest of the bastards stayed at home.
Mastery never comes and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting
Why are we fighting? We are fighting because we are soldiers. That's simple enough, isn't it?
The real fight, the struggle with form and expression, unwon
