'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all. SeeTennyson 843:34.

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  'Peschiera'.

They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

-Davis,Thomas Osborne
  The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

I started out very quiet and I beat MrTurgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr De Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one.But nobody's going to get me in any ring with MrTolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  In the NewYorker,13 May.

You have no part with lads who fought And laughed and suffered at my side. Your fugues and symphonies have brought No memory of my friends who died.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'Dead Musicians'.

Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for.

-Southey, Robert
  'The Battle of Blenheim'.

   That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

-Tennyson
  'The Grandmother', stanza 8, l.31^2.

We have†fought for our place in the sun and have won it.It will be my business to seethat we retain this place in the sun unchallenged.

-Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Speech in Hamburg,18 Jun. Quoted in TheTimes, 20 Jun.

O flower of Scotland, when will we see your like again, That fought and died for your wee bit hill and glen And stood against him, proud Edward's army, And sent him homeward tae think again.

-Williamson, Roy
  'Flower of Scotland', stanza1.