"Don’t say to yourself, ‘Everyone argues!’ to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love."
- Kamand Kojouri
"Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning."
- Robin Hobb
"No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!"
- Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard street was fitted out with muscle- making inventions. With the fibres thus builded up the members we..."
- O. Henry
"The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a ..."
- Jeanne Birdsall
"I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really — like a beer that’s been in a brawl."
- David Justice