FIGHT, FIGHTING

Related Subjects: Dueling, Sword, War

1. Fight the good fight.—Bible, 1Timothy 6:12
   

2. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.—Bible, 2 Timothy 4:7
   

3. When the fight begins within himself,
   A man's worth something.—BROWNING, Bishop Blougram's Apology
   

4. Strike—till the last armed foe expires;
   Strike—for your altars and your fires;
   Strike—for the green graves of your sires;
   God—and your native land!—FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, Marco Bozzaris
   

5. You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.—IBSEN, An Enemy of the People
   

6. I have not yet begun to fight.—JOHN PAUL JONES
   

7. Friends, how goes the fight?—MACAULAY, The Battle of Lake Regillus
   

8. But the truth is—and that is the fatal paradox—we mortals are so pathetically heroic that it will have to be made clear to us that it is more heroic to fight against fighting than to fight, before we have the guts to defy these leaders who, after all, are only ourselves turned into prime ministers and dictators.—J. C. POWYS, Autobiography
   

9. Fight till the last gasp.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
   

10. Lay on, Macduff,
    And damn'd be him that first cries
    "Hold, enough!"—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

11. "Oh, anywhere! Forward! 'Tis all the same, Colonel:
    You'll find lovely fighting along the whole line!"—E. C. STEDMAN, Kearny at Seven Pines
    

12. A man will fight for himself because if he does not he will go under.—JOHN STRACHEY, I Believe