 | Duncan Aikman - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 408 pages
...or heard of but himself. The little nursery song of my childhood comes back to my mind of " 'He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day But he who is in battle slain Never lives to fight again.' "This morning, November 21, the newspaper was handed... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Thomas Douglas Whitcombe - History - 1992 - 254 pages
...compiled by J. Newberry and revised and enlarged by O. Goldsmith, London, 1762, II, p. 147: For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. 70. Shakespeare, As You Like It II.vii.152.... | |
 | Timothy Raylor - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 348 pages
...household names. When they are remembered today, it is generally as the authors of the immortal couplet "He that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day," or as the editors of Wits Recreations and other popular seventeenth-century verse miscellanies, such... | |
 | Emanuel Strauss - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 616 pages
...may turn and fight another day e) he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day f ) he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day; but he who is in battle slain can never rise and fight again g) the better part of valour is discretion h)... | |
 | Hans Bergmann - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 276 pages
...Yankee soldier who fired a few stray shots at the enemy on his own hook, and then departed, singing, "He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." I am decidedly a man of peace, and the first three words of the first line would never correctly apply... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...no pain dear mother now But oh, I am so dry! O take me to a brewery And leave me there to die. 257 r *\ -ꐁcc < gR gu # ڙ;O uGf x{ [ +] z G 258 The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you. 259 If it flies, floats or... | |
 | Françoise Bulman - English language - 1998 - 290 pages
...Valour is bom with us, not acquired (there is no age for courage). 5. Mieux vaut couard que trop hardi. He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day (about the value of cowardice). 6. On fait toujours le loup plus gros qu'il n'est Fear has magnifying... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...no pain dear mother now But oh, I am so dry! O take me to a brewery And leave me there to die. 140 He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. 121 The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you. 142 If it flies, floats or... | |
 | Paul Cavill - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 232 pages
...'ideal' is never sensible, worldly, or rational, never reflects 'general opinion' like the proverbs ['He that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day' etc.] heading this essay. It attests to the existence of paradoxes and wonders, to moments of consciousness... | |
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For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. 
