Blow Quote by Thucydides

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.…

— Alcibiades

“If you do not chase in directly toward the place where your opponents have gathered, you will not make progress. And, if you start…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand…

— Frederick The Great

“It is of course also possible that the attacker is deliberately feinting to draw the parry to bind it, and will strike on the…

— Guy Windsor

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

— Thomas Fuller

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

— Stonewall Jackson

Men are victims of their own impulses.

— Gloria Steinem

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

— Gene Fowler

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As usual sparring goes: men represent strikes, touch each other, but do not tend to cause real damage to the partner.

— Andrei Arlovski