“ I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
“ Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle. ”
- Helena Bonham Carter- Copy
“ We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life. ”
- J.C. Ryle- Copy
“ I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. ”
- Mary Chase- Copy
“ A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle. ”
- Richard Holmes- Copy
“ Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations… ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
“ I was a product of the Depression. My father struggled to make a living for our family. He worked as a wrestler, a Marion County policeman, and both a car and insurance salesman. During World War II, he worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority's defense plant as a guard. ”
- Charles Moore- Copy
“ Whenever I play a role, whether it's good or bad, an evil person or nice person, I believe in being a purist and going all the way with the role. If I'm going to be a villainous wrestler, I believe in going all the way with it and not breaking character and not giving away to the audience that I'm playing a role… ”
- Andy Kaufman- Copy
“ If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself… ”
- William Bolitho- Copy
“ There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
“ I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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