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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— 1879 The Major-General's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.
"I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights."
manny pacquiao— Conference Call before the "Blaze of Glory: Pacquiao vs. Solis"
— As quoted in "Manny Pacquaio/Bob Arum Conference Call Transcript," at East Side Boxing (2007-07-04)
If 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 ruth— As quoted in Baseball as I Have Known It (1996) by Fred Lieb, p. 154
Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my sideIn the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
thomas moore— Come, send round the Wine.
Bullfight 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. kennedy— President Kennedy (mis)quoted a bit of doggerel by the torero Domingo Ortega (as translated by the English poet Robert Graves) in remarks during a 16 October 1962 Presidential Backgrounder before the National Foreign Policy Conference for Editors and Radio-TV Public Affairs Broadcasters ("Presidential Backgrounder 16 October 1962 #50," Box 134, Classified Background Briefing Material Series, Pierre Salinger Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library).The original poem goes this way: Bullfight critics ranked in rows
Crowd the enormous Plaza full
But only one is there who knows
And he's the man who fights the bull.
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression to preserve freedom and peace.
— Ronald Reagan, March 23, 1983 [6] (Quotes for)
I 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 Cromwell— 1643 Letter to Sir William Spring, Sep. Quotedin Thomas Carlyle Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1845).
For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith— The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.
— The saying "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day" dates at least as far back as Menander (ca. 341–290 B.C.), Gnomai Monostichoi, aphorism #45: ? (a man who flees will fight again). The Attic Nights (book 17, ch. 21) of Aulus Gellius (ca. 125–180 A.D.) indicates it was already widespread in the second century: "...the orator Demosthenes sought safety in flight from the battlefield, and when he was bitterly taunted with his flight, he jestingly replied in the well-known verse: The man who runs away will fight again."
Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.
ernst kaltenbrunner— To Leon Goldensohn, about the Armenian Genocide, 6/6/46, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.
norman mailer— Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 6
I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.
gilbert keith chesterton— Patrick Dalroy in The Flying Inn (1914), p 295
Alcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
Alain de Botton— pp. 45-46 (The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009))
He's somewhat lewd; but a well-meaning mind; Weeps much; fights little; but is wond'rous kind.
john dryden— Prologue (All for Love (1678))
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Euripides— Variant: Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgement.Pirithous.
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.
Pauline Kael— "Enter the Dragon," p. 170
For 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 kipling— Screw-Guns, Stanza 6.
I don't think we are ever prepared for the level of warfare at which ignorance fights.
steve maraboli— p. 73 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
On 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.
Tacitus— Chapter 6. (Germania (98))
If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 46 (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012))
He becomes strenuous, energetic, and perhaps eager for what must after all be regarded as success, and at last he fights for a verdict rather than for the truth.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 74 (Phineas Redux (1874))
"Whoever denies authority and fights against it is an anarchist," said Sebastien Faure. The definition is tempting in its simplicity, but simplicity is the first thing to guard against in writing a history of anarchism. Few doctrines or movements have been so confusedly understood in the public mind, and few have presented in their own variety of approach and action so much excuse for confusion.
George Woodcock— Prologue
A good man never fights with a woman.
gao xingjian— p. 103 (Buying a fishing rod for my grandfather)
A brave nation fights because it must ; a cowardly nation fights because it can.
— “Betraying Brave Boys,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 26, 2003.
For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
Alfred Tennyson— Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
— Euripides, Pirithous.
For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
— Euripides, Pirithous (adapted).
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.
— Michael Lang, festival producer, as reported in the New York Times August 17, 1969
