When I hear a man preach,
I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
- Abraham Lincoln
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
- John Lennon
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
No one has been barred on account of his race
from fighting or dying for America,
there are no white or colored signs
on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
- John F. Kennedy
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable
than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
Don't fight forces, use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
As our enemies have found, we can reason like men,
so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
- Thomas Jefferson
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment,
failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer,
I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau
Communists have always played an active role
in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom,
because the short-term objects of Communism
would always correspond with
the long-term objects of freedom movements.
- Nelson Mandela
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
Each of us holds a different image of God.
There are as many perspectives on
the nature of God as there are people.
However much any of us may choose to argue,
or to fight and kill, for our point of view,
the nature of God is an unanswerable question.
Perhaps there is a specific answer,
that we will never learn - in this lifetime.
Perhaps the nature of God is so complex and multifaceted
that each view of God describes an aspect of the complex whole.
Or perhaps the nature of God is actually defined by our beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
- William J. Clinton
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
It's cookies, he smells like cookies,
and the smell gets stronger when he's in heat.
- the movie Michael
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
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