Fights And Fighting

(148 votes)   The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something -- war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(115 votes)   He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(113 votes)   If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.

Max Gunther
American Author

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(108 votes)   "It's not about the size of the dog in the fight...it's about the size of the fight in the dog."---Author unknown; Somebody in my science class wrote this on the board one day. Thought it was too good to not write down.

Unknown Unknown

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(101 votes)   I have not yet begun to fight.

John Paul Jones

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(96 votes)   There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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(91 votes)   People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Abigail Van Buren
American Advice Columnist - ''Dear Abby''

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(91 votes)   That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(87 votes)   My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Mother Jones

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(86 votes)   The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(82 votes)   In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Paul Dirac

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(78 votes)   He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.

Master Kahn

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(76 votes)   You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(74 votes)   Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.

Proverbs

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(63 votes)   Fighting is for people who have problems with there brain.

Mike Lupica
Author of "Travel Team"

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