You’ve gotta pick your battles in this world.
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.
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
You should always plan your battles from the enemy’s point of view.
We had to fight, because to decline battle was a defeat.
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle 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.
