You’ve gotta pick your battles in this world.
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
You should always plan your battles from the enemy’s point of view.
We had to fight, because to decline battle was a defeat.
Stopping a battle is much harder that starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout “Attack!,” but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
Contemporaneity specializes in the kind of battles wherein no one loses anything of any value, except arguably their lives.
Battle was always a mess. The only neat battles were the ones in stories or history books.
All life’s battles teach us something, even those we lose.[Todas as batalhas na vida servem para nos ensinar alguma coisa – inclusive aquelas que perdemos.]
A great battle is a terrible thing, but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.
