Do you go down with all guns blazing, or do you know when to fold 'em?

There are people who seem to never be willing to concede a point or an argument or to allow anyone else to have the last word. I don’t know what it is, but they seem to believe they can’t respect themselves if they don’t fight to the bitter end. Can anyone explain this?

But what I really want to hear is stories about conflicts you have had and whether you just kept on fighting forever, or you gave it up as a bad job, deciding you didn’t want to flog a dead horse any more?

Can you tell that story and then say why you chose to do what you did? If you have a theory about how to figure out when you should “fold ‘em,” what is it? Where do you draw the line? When does the price become too high?

By my count, there are seven different proverbs in the mix in this question. How many do you find?