Topic : Fight

• A bulldog can beat a skunk any day, but it just isn’t worth it!
• When you throw dirt at people you’re not doing a thing but losing ground. - Zig Ziglar
• Never get into fights with ugly people because they have nothing to lose. - Unknown
• A fight started, somebody pulled a knife, and a woman got stabbed in the fracas. -Charles Parker, quoted by Earl Wilson
• People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. - Abigail Van Buren
• In quarreling, the truth is always lost. - Publilius Syrus

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Stan Mikita, a professional hockey star, used to get into a lot of fights during games. He stopped when his eight-year-old daughter asked a very grown-up question: “How can you score goals when you’re always in the penalty box, Daddy?”

Bits and Pieces, July, 1990, p. 19

A couple of navy stories may help illustrate the sad result of internal strife and the positive result of unity.

• Two battleships met in the night and began to attack each other. In the conflict, a number of crewmen were severely wounded, and both vessels were damaged. As daylight broke, the sailors on the ships discovered to their amazement that both vessels flew the English flag.
• Many years earlier, just before the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the British naval hero Lord Nelson learned that an admiral and a captain in his fleet were not on good terms. Sending for the two men, he placed the hands of the admiral and the captain together. Then, looking them both in the face, he said, “Look—yonder is the enemy!”

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