Fight quotes

Beaverbrook Lord 1879-1964

(about Edward VI I I)

Our cock won't fight.

Blake William 1757-1827

Milton [preface]

I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England's green and pleasant land.

Borges Jorge Luis 1899-1986

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Browning Robert 1812-1889

„Bishop Blougram's Apology"

No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.

Burns Robert 1759-1796

,,There was a Lass"

A man may drink and no be drunk;
A man may fight and no be slain;
A man may kiss a bonnie lass,
And aye be welcome back again.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Churchill Sir Winston 1874-1965

When I warned them [the French Government] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, „In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken! Some neck!

Diller Phyllis

Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Dryden John 1631-1700

Fight on, my merry men all,
I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain;
I will lay me down for to bleed a while,
Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

Eisenhower Dwight D. 1890-1969

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Fuller Buckminster 1895-1983

Don't fight forces; use them.

Gaitskell Hugh 1906-1963

(at Labour Party Conference)

There are some of us... who will fight and fight and  fight again to save the Party we love.

Galdstone W. E. 1809 1898

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

Graham D. M. 1911-

(motion for debate at Oxford Union)

That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.

Haig Earl 1861-1928

(order to British troops)

Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no  retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice  of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.

Hugo Victor 1802-1885

Those who live are those who fight.

Jones Paul 1747-1792

(as his ship was sinking)

I have not yet begun to fight.

Kempton Sally

It is hard ti fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Loyola St Ignatius 1491-1556

„Prayer for Generosity"

Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest:
To give and not to count the cost;
To fight and not to heed the wounds;
To toil and not to seek for rest;
To labour and not to ask for any reward
Save that of knowing that we do Thy will.

Mann Thomas 1875-1955

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Marley Bob 1945-1981

„Get up, Stand up"

Get up, stand up
Stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up
Never give up the fight.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought
The better fight, who single has maintained
Against revolted multitudes the cause
Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms.

Monsell John Samuel Bewley 1811-1875

„Fight the good fight with all thy might"

Fight the good fight with all thy might,
Christ is thy strength and Christ thy right;
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.

Mottoes and Slogans

(pacifist slogan)

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

Proverbs and Sayings

African

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

Saint-Exupéry Antoine de 1900-1944

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a  time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight,  and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Henry V

I dare not fight; but I will wink and hold out mine iron.

Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Tzu-Sun

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a  hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies  of your enemies without even having to fight them.

Watts Isaac 1674-1748

Divine Songs for Children „Love between Brothers"

Birds in their little nests agree
And ´tis a shameful sight,
When children of one family
Fall out, and chide, and fight.

Yeats William Butler 1865-1939

„An Irish Airman Foresees his Death"

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds.

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