Bierce Ambrose 1842-c.1914
The Devil's Dictionary
Peace, n: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Billings Josh 1818-1885
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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.
Hoffer Eric 1902-1983
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have ‘something worth fighting for' , they do not feel like fighting.
Kazan Elia
You've got to keep fighting- you've got to risk your life
every six months to stay alive.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy'
So ‘ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your ‘ome in the Soudan;
You're a pore benighted ‘eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
An' ‘ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your ‘ayrick ‘ead of ‘air -
You big black boundin' beggar - for you broke a
British square!
Leacock Stephen 1869-1944
The British are terribly lazy about fighting.
They like to get it over and done with and
then set up a game of cricket.
Malraux André 1901-1976
L'Espoir
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to
win. Neither revolution nor was consists in doing what one pleases.
Marx Grouncho 1895-1977
in Duck Soup
"Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honour ... which
is probably more than she ever did."
Service Robert 1874-1958
‘Michael'
When we, the Workers, all demand: ‘What are We fighting for?'...
Then, then we'll end that stupid crime, that devil's madness - War.
Spooner Rev. W. A. 1844-1930
(attributed)
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave Oxford by the next town drain.
Swift Jonathan 1667-1745
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Voltaire 1694-1778
I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.
Anonymous
He that fights and runs away,
May live to fight another day.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
Jenseits von Gut und Böse
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.
Wilder Thornton 1897-1975
The Merchant of Yonkers
The fights are the best part of married life. The rest is merely so-so.