...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

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...'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...