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Category Archives: FIGHTING
Wake not a sleeping lion.
never fight a lion – unless you are a lion yourself.” – african proverb
Ils veulent vider leur querelle = They want to fight it out.
Fight dog, fight bear, wha wins de’il care.
I am the man for eating and drinking but for fighting here is my humpbacked brother.
“I remember one time, back in the day, I was at his [Bill Ward] house and he said, ‘Oh, ’ello Ozzy. You’ll never guess what? I’ve just come out of a coma.’
‘What d’you mean, a coma? That’s one stage removed from being dead. You know that, don’t you, Bill?’
‘All I know is I went to bed on Friday, and now it’s Tuesday, and I only just woke up. That’s a coma, isn’t it?’
‘No, that’s taking too many drugs and drinking too much cider and sleeping for three days in a row, you d**k.’”~ Ozzy Osbourne, I am Ozzy
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. Terry Pratchett
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”
― Rumi
It’s a braw bricht moonlit nicht the nicht
It’s a good (or brilliant) bright moonlight night tonight.
http://scotlandwelcomesyou.com/scottish-sayings/
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony
A slave’s life is all you understand, you know nothing of freedom. For if you did, you would have encouraged us to fight on, not only with our spear, but with everything we have.’
Spartan.
The history of a nation is not in parliaments or battlefields, but in what the people say to each other on fair days and high days, and in how they farm and quarrel and go on pilgrimage.” Wm. B. Yeats
http://conwaymilltrust.org/category/quotes-poems-proverbs-and-sayings/page/4/
We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the neighbouring marsh
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/quotes.htm
“He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
A fish rots from the head down
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-and-sayings-list.html
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.
– William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Wanton kittens make sober cats.
http://www.catquotes.com/catproverbs1.htm
“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”– Mark Twain
Nothing in life is fair except a witnessed duel.”
― Lynda Williams
When two evil guys fight in a duel,
the worst of both will be the winner.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The greatest war every fought, and are still fighting, where more people have been defeated and died, is the war within.”
― Anthony Liccione
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Edwin Markham
Fairytales don’t tell children that dragons exist; children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed.”
― C. K. Chesterton
“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Proverbs 23:29-30 – Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.
“I sit here
drunk now.
I am
a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as
amazed
as any other
that
I have gotten
from there to
here
without committing murder
or being
murdered;
without
having ended up in the
madhouse.
as I drink alone
again tonight
my soul despite all the past
agony
thanks all the gods
who were not
there
for me
then.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Alcohol is decisiveness juice. It’s also bad idea punch, intellect intoxicant, insolence nectar, fighting fluid, boastfulness booze, smartass sauce, injury water, aggressiveness aqua vitae, felony-committin’ firewater, and, of course, maybe above all else…depression drink.
― Aaron Goldfarb, How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide
“(He took a drink of the juice and cursed.)
What is this shit? Poison? (Syn)
You can’t live on alcohol. (Nykyrian)
Wanna bet? (Syn)
Wanna die? Drink it and quit bitching. (Nykyrian)
You know, you’re a little hairy to be my mother. (Syn)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Night
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
“I’m not stupid. I know exactly what’s going on, and I’m not fighting it. If I have to go through this, I will glean from it any small benefit I can receive. I will not fight this. Bring it on. Bring on the cure. Bring on the fucking happy. I’m committed.”
Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
In my life, I’ve learned when to let shit go and when to fight. This, babe, what we got, I’ll fight for.
― Kristen Ashley, The Gamble
“Life is gamble, It’s harsh and painful most of the time, and it’s not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn’t even show up for the battle."
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Night Play
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity.
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.”
Jenny Han, We’ll Always Have Summer
And if you look more deeply, with the eyes of a bodhisattva, with the eyes of those who are awake, you see not only the clouds and the sunshine in it, but that everything is here.
Thich Nhat Hanh.
When glory has its day the world will greet a rising sun
A world awoken to no fighting nor the sound of guns
Men will shake each others hand and live for love and peace
All countries will unite as one
The fighting will all cease.
A bad compromise is better than a good battle. Russian
CONTROVERSY BETWEEN TWO MEN ON THE RELATIVE VALUE OF EDUCATION AND MONEY By Momoru Duclay
Affirmative. Money is fine. It pass book sense. Negative. Book sense is fine. It pass money.
Affirmative. Money is fine and I live to go and find my money. Negative. Book sense is fine and pass the money; that is why I go and find book sense. Because book sense is property for the prophets. Money be property for Pharaoh in this world.
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028639221/cu31924028639221_djvu.txt
foto – altar in raleigh 2010
Tamil. " I stepped into the water without knowing its depth."
"A classified collection of Tamil proverbs"
THE GATHERING LIGHT
ROBERT ADAMSON
Time whistles around us, an invisible
flood tide that I let go
while I take in what I have done.
It wasn’t a fight, I was drawn to this moment.
The physical world drains away
into a golden calm.
foto – hall stand with jug and bowl from kerrie nov 09
Courage loves fighting ‘gainst terrible odds.
"Wisdom for the wise : a book of proverbs"
The Ferrets Are Fighting
The ferrets are fighting; the fur’s being flung.
As scathing and biting as a mother-in-law’s tongue.
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foto – bilambil sports club 2008.
The wounded gladiator forswears fighting, and then forgets his former wound and grasps his weapons again.
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
Buddha.
Scrubby Pete Hurcombe and Izzy Foreal at Stoker’s Siding. 2008.
Better a good retreat than stay to suffer.
Friends are good on the day of battle.
Today drunk, to-morrow on water.
Manx.
“A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases, based on Macintosh’s collection“
