Fight the good fight. [ Bible ]
Fight dog, fight bear. [ Proverb ]
We shall fight in the shade. [ Leonidas, to the threat of the Persians that their forest of arrows would darken the sun ]
He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.
But he who is in battle slain,
Can never rise to fight again. [ Goldsmith ]
He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day. [ Goldsmith ]
He that will conquer must fight. [ Proverb ]
For those that fly may fight again.
Which he can never do that's slain. [ Butler ]
Let dogs delight to bark and bite.
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight.
For 'tis their nature to. [ Isaac Watts ]
When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something. [ Robert Browning ]
I give the fight up; let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me,
I want to be forgotten even by God. [ Robert Browning ]
Full guts neither run away nor fight well. [ Proverb ]
When mastiffs fight, little curs will bark. [ Proverb ]
The poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
A coward is the kindest animal;
'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. [ Dryden ]
Consider how the desperate fight;
Despair strikes wild, - but often fatal too -
And in the mad encounter wins success. [ Havard ]
Virtues all agree, but vices fight one another. [ Proverb ]
Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great.
Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint. [ William Shakespeare ]
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. [ Pope ]
Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce! [ Schiller ]
Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field.
Still on their dinner turn -
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword. [ Joanna Baillie ]
I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. [ William Shakespeare ]
Valour would fight, but discretion would run away. [ Proverb ]
And high above the fight the lonely bugle grieves. [ Grenville Mellin ]
Sparrows fight for corn, which is none of their own. [ Proverb ]
An infant when it gazes on the light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping
As they who watch over what they love while sleeping. [ Byron ]
Put a coward to his mettle and he'll fight the devil. [ Proverb ]
The Alphabet Of Success
Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]
Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it. [ Proverb ]
I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer. [ Grant ]
What there are pride and covetousness in a man, two devils fight. [ Proverb ]
That same man that rennith awaie, Male again fight, an other dale. [ Erasmus ]
In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses. [ Heine ]
We stand in our own light wherever we go, and fight our own shadows forever. [ Owen Meredith ]
I will fight the battle of liberty as long as there is a shot in the locker. [ David Paul Jones ]
Rumor is like bees: the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil. [ Goldsmith ]
I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
To fight with its neighbours never was, and is now less than ever, the real trade of England. [ Carlyle ]
The Golden Rule Of Three.
Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Fight valiantly today; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor. [ William Shakespeare ]
Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful. [ Vauvenargues ]
When you have got so much true knowledge as is worth fighting for, you are bound to fight or to die for it, but not to debate about it any more. [ John Ruskin ]
The last word
is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was running to go fight in another fight, away from the first fight. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine duel with the whole world of darkness that lies without one and within one; - rather a hard fight at times. [ Carlyle ]
Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death. [ Mackenzie ]
Honor is not a virtue in itself, it is the mail behind which the virtues fight more securely. A man without honor is as maimed in his equipment as an accoutred knight without helmet. Honor is not simply truthfulness; it is truthfulness sparkling with the fire of a suspective personality. It is something more than an ornament even to the loftiest. [ George H. Calvert ]
His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]