Fight, Fighting

I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner. – Arabic Proverb

Wise men do not quarrel with each other. – Danish proverb

Better be quarrelling than lonesome. – Proverb

Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains. – Proverb

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. – Abigail Van Buren

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. – G. K. Chesterton

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. – G. K. Chesterton

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. – Princess of Wales Diana

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. – Paul Dirac

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. – John Donne

The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love. – Richard Edwardes

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? – George Eliot

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. – William Faulkner

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. – Robert Frost

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. – Max Gunther

The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it. – Benjamin Haydon

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel — and all of them are right. – Heinrich Heine

Im not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. – Ernest Hemingway

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win. – Edward W. Howe

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. – Mother Jones