#battle

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For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#bed-of-roses #love #marriage #matrimony #war

The battle of the sexes and you're winning hands down.


Margaret Way


#fight #men-and-women #sexes #love

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.


Oscar Wilde


#gender-roles #suffrage #womens-rights #men

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.


Leo Tolstoy


#reason #war #men

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.


Nathaniel Hawthorne


#battle #brave #brave men #contests #daily

Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men, You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.


Anonymous


#buddhist #self-awareness #v- #men

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.


Margaret Thatcher


#fight #may #more #once #than

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you


Jacqueline Carey


#loyalty #war #loyalty

Hephaestus glowered up at us. “I didn’t make you, did I?” Uh,” Annabeth said, “no, sir.” Good,” the god grumbled. “Shoddy workmanship.


Rick Riordan


#hephaestus #percy-jackson #battle

I turned and found Dionysus standing there, still in his black suit. Walk with me,” he said. Where to?” I asked suspiciously. Just to the campfire,” he said. “I was beginning to feel better, so I thought I would talk with you a bit. You always manage to annoy me.” Uh, thanks.


Rick Riordan


#the-battle-of-the-labyrinth #battle