Quotes about fights and fighting

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."

Buren, Abigail Van on fights and fighting
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"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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fights and fighting   

"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fights and fighting
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"I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties."

Diana, Princess of Wales on fights and fighting   

"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."

Dirac, Paul on fights and fighting   

"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."

Frost, Robert on fights and fighting
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"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

Gracian, Baltasar on fights and fighting
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"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."

Gunther, Max on fights and fighting   

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."

Hemingway, Ernest on fights and fighting   

"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."

Howe, Edgar Watson on fights and fighting
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"I have not yet begun to fight."

Jones, John Paul on fights and fighting   

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."

Jones, Mother on fights and fighting   

"He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive."

Kahn, Master on fights and fighting
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"No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

Lincoln, Abraham on fights and fighting
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"Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed."

Mitchell, Margaret on fights and fighting   

"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."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fights and fighting
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"Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains."

Proverb on fights and fighting
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"That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms."

Shaw, George Bernard on fights and fighting   

"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on fights and fighting
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