Fighting Sioux Nickname

Famous quotes containing the words fighting and/or nickname:

    It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement, as all boys kill cats.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
    William Hazlitt (1778–1830)