"Boxers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... impossible for men so much as to murder each other without statutes, and maxims, and an idea of justice and honour. War has its laws as well as peace; and even that sportive kind of war, carried on among wrestlers, boxers, cudgel-players, gladiators, is regulated by fixed principles. Common interest and utility beget infallibly a standard of right and wrong ...
— An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals • David Hume
... for a fellowship.' Sherard will explain the meaning of the sentence, if it is ambiguous. This answer delighted them not. We have several parties here, and this evening a large assortment of jockeys, gamblers, boxers, authors, parsons, and poets, sup with me,—a precious mixture, but they go on well together; and for me, I am a spice of every thing except a jockey; by the by, I was ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.) - With his Letters and Journals. • Thomas Moore
... been lately occupied with a question relating to a patent for pins' heads. The costs are estimated at L5000. The lawyers are the best boxers, after all. Only let them get a head in chancery, even a pin's, and see how they ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 7, 1841 • Various |
