...body knows it. Do not be troubled: — calm yourself with the consolation of the valorous Falstaff — "He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day." Keep in a good humor with the world. Mankind are not all rascals, though an honest man wants bread....

...had work before it. Everything was to be done over again. It had to set a tune for these lines : " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." " The Platte Argus" generated, and shot its lightning, and rolled its thunder weekly against the cowards...

...fight an other dale. From the Musarum Delicice, compiled by Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. 1640. He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day.* RICHARD GRAFTON. Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande. 1570. 8vo. " A rule to knowe how many dayes...

...might sometimes think " discretion the better part of valor," and slyly decamp, saying to himself, " He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day." Still, no man will deny that great courage it displayed in War. But it is not the highest kind of courage,...

...distich so often sought in vain in Hudibras is Menander's : avyp o cj)ev'ywv KOI ira\tv fia^aerat. 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...

...bloodless battle, drove Mesmer from the field, who, however, being young, acted on the principle, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." He went on curing, and what he lost in credit he made up in noise. But father Hehl followed so close...

...will serve only to show its unsoundness. HE THAT FIGHTS AND BUNS AWAY. The often-quoted lines — For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, The passage, as it really stands in Hudibras (book iii. canto iii. verse 243), is as follows : —...

...20. " for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter." He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. These lines, usually ascribed to Hudibras, are really much older. They are to be found in a book published...

...was a North Briton or Scotchman, and undoubtedly as near as possible adopted the maxim of Hudibras, He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day; for he kept most of the time during the action in the cabin, occasionally showing his head from the...

...time." In cases of this nature I think prudence the best part of valor, and follow the maxim — " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." COMMUNICATED BY THE AYRSHIRE POET. A noble knight an' I one day Wi' bonnie lassies gude did hey, Frae...