I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert"I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights."
manny pacquiaoIf it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
babe ruthShall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my sideIn the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
thomas mooreBullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.
john f. kennedyI had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver CromwellThe believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference: the doubter fights only with himself.
graham greeneFor he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
Oliver GoldsmithRussia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.
ernst kaltenbrunnerAs long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.
alexander suvorovI am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.
gilbert keith chestertonAlcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
Alain de BottonA Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.
robert jordanFor you all love the screw-guns the screw-guns they all love you! So when we take tea with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do hoo! hoo! Jest send in your Chief an' surrender it's worse if you fights or you runs: You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves, but you can't get away from the guns!
rudyard kiplingNot in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.
alfred rosenbergOn the whole,one would say that their strength is in their infantry, which fights along with the cavalry; admirably adapted to the action of the latter is the swiftness of certain foot soldiers, who are picked from the entire youth of their country, and stationed in front of the line.
TacitusIf humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
nassim nicholas talebChiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
Alexander PopeA brave nation fights because it must ; a cowardly nation fights because it can.
For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
Alfred TennysonChance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.
ralph waldo emersonHe that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
It's about the quietest, most well-behaved 300,000 people in one place that can be imagined. There have been no fights or incidents of violence of any kind.