“The man who runs may fight again.”
Menander (-342–-291 BC) Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Variant translation: The man who runs away will fight again.
Monosticha.
“We may lose the vote today, and the result may deal this party a grave blow. It may not be possible to prevent it, but there are some of us, I think many of us, who will not accept that this blow need be mortal: who will not believe that such an end is inevitable. There are some of us who will fight, and fight, and fight again, to save the party we love. We will fight, and fight, and fight again, to bring back sanity and honesty and dignity, so that our party – with its great past – may retain its glory and its greatness.”
Speech at the Labour Party conference (5 October 1960) in opposition to a motion endorsing unilateral nuclear disarmament.
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.
The saying "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day" dates at least as far back as Menander (ca. 341–290 B.C.), Gnomai Monostichoi, aphorism #45: ἀνήρ ὁ ϕɛύγων καὶ ράλίν μαχήɛṯαί (a man who flees will fight again). The Attic Nights (book 17, ch. 21) of Aulus Gellius (ca. 125–180 A.D.) indicates it was already widespread in the second century: "...the orator Demosthenes sought safety in flight from the battlefield, and when he was bitterly taunted with his flight, he jestingly replied in the well-known verse: The man who runs away will fight again".
“We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.”
Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540) Italian writer, historian and politician
Con disavvantaggio grande si fa la guerra con chi non ha che perdere.
Storia d' Italia (1537-1540)
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
The Daily Chronicle on the 7 March 1917 https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/george-bernard-shaw-joyriding-on-the-front. <br class="br">1910s, The Technique of War (1917)
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954) Current President of Egypt
Remarks by el-Sisi during a military conference (28 April 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC93fn9s3-c. <br class="br">2013 <br class="br">Variant: Simply, all what we did is that we avoided the country a big crisis and a battle between Egyptians. Beware, instead of Egyptians fighting each other, no, you can fight us, and we protect all. how many would fight us? but Egyptians fighting each other would be a big war we couldn't have had the ability to deal with.
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician
As quoted in Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946) by John Hampden Jackson.
Prime Minister
“…and that we were now those guys…who started a fight at a Harry Potter book party.”
Tucker Max (1975) Internet personality; blogger; author
Nantucket Sucks http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/nantucket_sucks.phtml#675, <br class="br">The Tucker Max Stories