Old Testament: Ecclesiastes ch.9 v.11
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Capriati Jennifer
I don't care about being No. 1, but I'm ready and willing
to give battle, and that's what sport is all about.
Carroll Lewis (Charles L. Dodgson) 1832-1898
Through the Looking-Glass
It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.
Cummings E.E. 1894-1962
To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
De Gaulle Charles 1890-1970
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!
Hellman Lillian 1907-1984
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Hemans Felicia 1793-1835
‘Casabianca'
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead.
Ibsen Henrik 1828-1906
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
Kennedy John F. 1917-1963
(Inaugural address)
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a
call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, ‘rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation' - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.
Kennedy John F. 1917-1963
(on proposed Civil Right Bill)
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America-there are no „white" or"coloured" signs on the foxholes or
graveyards of battle.
Livy (Titus Livius) 59 BC -AD 17
(of Hannibal's ambush of the Romans)
Pugna magna victi sumus.
We were defeated in a great battle.
Murrow Edward R. 1908-1965
He [Winston Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into
battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans
upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
Runyon Damon 1884-1946
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the
strong - but that's the way to bet.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Macbeth
FIRST WITCH: When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
SECOND WITCH: When the hurly-burly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
Virginibus Puerisque
Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
Wellington Duke of 1769-1852
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.