Pugilism Quotes

#1. It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.

Randal Cremer

#2. Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#3. The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#4. Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

Davis Miller

#5. The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#6. PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#7. Why can't ladies like nice guys?

Jorma Taccone

#8. Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good ...

Mary Louisa Molesworth

#9. Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

Denise Duhamel

#10. The only air that moves is air we push from our lungs.

Alexandra Kleeman

#11. Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat.

Seth Shostak

#12. I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself.

Sarah MacLean

#13. I mean, it really has a lot to do with who is actually physically doing a lot of talking. And we've just noticed that as we've evolved we're still making all the decisions from this, like, "cave."

Mark Duplass