 | Sarah Grand - 1916 - 666 pages
...himself with a quotation he had heard Col Drindon make telling play with for another purpose : " ' He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.' " Mr. Harkles glowed with... | |
 | Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje - Proverbs, Bantu - 1916 - 130 pages
...wise. EUROPEAN EQUIVALENT 352. (a) He that strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear. (6) He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. (c) Deep swimmers and high climbers seldom die in their beds. 353. A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees... | |
 | Henry Sweet - English language - 1918 - 166 pages
...he that is now obsolete in the spoken language, being preserved only in traditional phrases such as he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. We now employ some such construction as a man who . . , or, if absolutely necessary, a man that. 2141.... | |
 | W. E. Collinson - Foreign Language Study - 1927 - 180 pages
.../ He never forgets to use his stick! 14. Another much quoted 17th century couplet (cf. Benham) For he that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day! 15. To a wood or coal-fire, as a love-token: If you love me, pop and fly! / If not, lie there silently!... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - English language - 1927 - 438 pages
...he that is now obsolete in the spoken language, being preserved only in traditional phrases such as he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. We now employ some such construction as a man who . . ., or, if absolutely necessary, a man that."... | |
 | University of Iowa - Philology - 1928 - 760 pages
...Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. — Burke. — Dean Hole. — Proverbs, 25:11. — Arnold. —Burke. Speech Speech is silvern, is human,... | |
 | 1856 - 596 pages
...distich so often sought in vain in Hudibras is Menander's : avrlp o cpevfuv KOI iraAiii /ua^rJaeTai. He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day.' Yet after all, though to the sculptor, or to those who have profoundly studied and acquired an exquisite... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1894 - 684 pages
...never do that's slain, a palpable ignorance that ' Goldie ' supplies the more frequently quoted form : He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day. As Gray's vogue has never lessened, one need only refer to the ' Elegy ' for form's sake. Every line... | |
 | Barrie G. James - Business & Economics - 1985 - 256 pages
...profits of FF574 million in 1983.^ The quotation from Musarum Delicate in the seventeenth century; 'He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day'. is as true for military combat as it is for business combat and has lost none of its meaningfulness... | |
 | Ian N. Wood, Niels Lund - History - 1991 - 296 pages
...IDEAL OF MEN DYING WITH THEIR LORD IN THE BATTLE OF MALDON: ANACHRONISM OR NOUVELLE VAGUE Roberta Frank He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day. Anonymous English proverb1 Qui fugiebat, rursus proeliabitur. Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione,... | |
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For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again. 
