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Any Coward Can Fight A Battle When He Is Sure Of Winning
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Any coward can fight a battle when he is sure of winning; but give me
the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way,
sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
-- George Eliot
Related:
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed
if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly...
The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pelopida...
Hank: I'm gonna leave everything to you. We're on a tight schedule.
You keep them motivated. [he leaves] [his staff is busily working] Home...
Never jump on a man unless he is down, and when you do, make sure that you confuse him by supplying him with so many facts that he can not possibly understand what you are saying.
Death scene of Cyrano ] It is coming... I feel Already shod with marble.
.. gloved with lead... Let the old fellow come now!...
A man is crawling through the Sahara desert when he is approached by another man riding on a camel.
When the rider gets close enough, the crawling man whispers through his sun-parched lips, "Water....
Lisa: Why don't you go see Grampa? Bart: What can &l
he> do? Lisa: He'll give you good advice. He's the toughest Simpson alive....
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.
-- Charles Burchfield...
Marge: Now wait a minute, I'm not sure about this. Every time we've ever gone on vacation I end up being horribly embarrassed.
We end up in a big fight and we come home more miserable than when we left....