| "... it's simply wrong to always order kids to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting." »Erma Bombeck |
| "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." »Plato |
| "It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country." »Homer |
| "Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for." »Erica Jong |
| "'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome." »Marion Parker |
| "The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting." »Sun-tzu |
| "It's the Brady Act taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets." »Dennis Martin |
| "Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting." »Rahul Katragadda |
| "Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting." »Maxims of Ptahhotep |
| "If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice." »Pan Ku |
| "You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round." »James Corbett |
| "During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books." »Bill Maher |
| "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." »e e cummings |
| "Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." »Lee Iacocca |
| "I bet when they weren't fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia." »Hans Albrecht Bethe |
| "Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things." »Robert Smith |
| "To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." »Sun-tzu |
| "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." »H.L. Mencken |
| "We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle." »Erma Bombeck |
| "Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender." »Andrew Schneider |
| "A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own." »H.L. Mencken |
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