Quotes about Fights and Fighting

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“I have not yet begun to fight.”
VerifiedHis famous response, in the early phase of the Battle of Flamborough Head, (23 September 1779) to an inquiry by his opponent (Captain Richard Pearson of the Royal Navy ship HMS Serapis) · evidenceFights and Fighting
“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”
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“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.”
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“That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
VerifiedGone with the Wind (1936) · evidenceFights and Fighting
“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.”
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