He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day

This proverb is special to me. When I was younger, I always would fight with my sister. We would go at it like we were starving wolves fighting for food. Once we started, we couldn't stop. Our parents would have to threaten us to get us to stop. Not bad threatening, but like your gonna be grounded threatening. We would then storm off to seperate parts of the house and mope the rest of the day. My dad would always say, He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day. He would explain that if i started to realize we were fighting, i could be the tough one and back away from it. Just like it said, I would be the one to run away, but i'd be back to fight again. This inspired me, now I can just walk away no problem and stay away from fights.