Quotes about fights-and-fighting

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

— Abigail Van Buren

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

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

— Princess of Wales Diana

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

— Paul Dirac

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

— Robert Frost

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

— Baltasar Gracian

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Edgar Watson Howe

I have not yet begun to fight.

— John Paul Jones

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

— Mother Jones

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

— Master Kahn

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

— Abraham Lincoln

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.

— Margaret Mitchell

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

Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains.

— Proverb

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

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

— Woodrow T. Wilson