Top 100 Quotes About Armour
#1. The author apologizes for being unable to afford a ghost writer, which explains the lack of a distinctive prose style.
Richard Armour
#2. The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.
Thomas Campion
#3. A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
Richard Armour
#4. I don't know
what I'm feeling. Existing like I'm on auto pilot.
I've put my Armour on now. Limiting everything getting
in but also not letting anything out.
Tina J. Richardson
#5. Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
Richard Armour
#6. Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll.
Richard Armour
#7. Fairytales cleanse and sanitise what were once true stories. In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour - when in truth they were swarthy, filthy rapists and thugs. Castles are bright and gay when in truth they were grim fortresses.
Matthew Reilly
#8. My lord, it is Patroclus, he is dead, his armour taken.. Hector is to blame.' There was a chilling silence, then a sudden intake of breath. Then a cry, low rising, increasing, then torn out of him, turned out of the depth of Hades... For Achilles, the only word 'Patroclus.
Byrne Fone
#9. there is no better looking glass than an old friend.
Philip Armour
#10. There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.
J. Ogden Armour
#11. You would do well to turn from Chapter XXXVI to Chapter CXXXIII without further delay, thus saving nearly a hundred chapters without anybody's knowing the difference if you keep quiet. After all, Ahab isn't the only one entitled to be a skipper.
Richard Armour
#12. I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.
Nick Clegg
#13. He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that...victory deserved the best-looking armour.
Xenophon
#14. Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.
Richard Armour
#15. Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off.
Jeanette Winterson
#16. In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
William Gurnall
#17. Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.
Glenda Millard
#18. I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
Samantha Fox
#19. I laughed. So, let me get this straight. You slayed the dragon, jumped over the moat, climbed the tower of the evil King's castle, saved the princes, and rode off with her into sunset aka Shadow land. Why, you're my knight in shining armour.
Jayde Scott
#21. Just knock hell out of it with your right hand.
Tommy Armour
#22. Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece. (Itkovian)
Steven Erikson
#23. The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.
Tommy Armour
#24. There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment
Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.
Richard Armour
#25. Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.
Karen Quan
#26. May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you.
Paulo Coelho
#27. When I'm not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I'm shy; yet, when I'm in the show, when people come up with their phones and want to take my picture, I can handle it because it's almost like I'm wearing an armour.
Anthony Warlow
#28. You are my armour and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.
Alice Hoffman
#29. In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.
Michael Foreman
#30. He had died for his beliefs; chief among them was the very Hugglestonian one that bravery could replace armour, and that Klatchians would turn and run if you shouted loud enough.
Terry Pratchett
#31. Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the winter. Why not make a better piece of equipment for underneath the shoulder pads?
Kevin Plank
#32. [Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.
Richard Armour
#33. If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.
Richard Armour
#34. Love that I bear
within my breast
how is my armour melted
how my heart
Hilda Doolittle
#35. I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.
Daphne Guinness
#36. There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.
Philip Danforth Armour
#37. Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
Richard Armour
#38. Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
Diogenes
#39. Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.
Richard Armour
#41. Irony is a gift of the gods, the most subtle of all the modes of speech. It is an armour and a weapon; it is a philosophy and a perpetual entertainment; it is food for the hungry of wit and drink to those thirsting for laughter ...
W. Somerset Maugham
#42. And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.
Michael Ondaatje
#43. A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
Kate Reardon
#44. Scott calls Bois-Guilbert "an unprincipled voluptuary," which is hard to improve on.
Richard Armour
#46. Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.
Jordan Spieth
#47. All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.
Mark Strong
#48. The Soviet Knight is dying inside his armour. He is a secondary power like you British. He can start a war but cannot continue one and cannot win one. Believe me.
John Le Carre
#49. Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood.
Steven Erikson
#50. If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.
Richard Armour
#51. When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.
Richard Armour
#52. The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#53. I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns
#54. In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
Bram Stoker
#55. He had been quite unprepared for this particular blow, striking under every conceivable kind of armour, and for some minutes he could hardly bear the pain, but sat there blinking in the sun. 'Christ,' he said at last. 'Another day.
Patrick O'Brian
#56. Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.
Anthony Carmona
#57. "Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.
Richard Armour
#59. I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.
Misty Copeland
#60. How beautiful it is for a man to die
Upon the walls of Zion! to be called
Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel,
To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#61. Melville died in New York on September 28, 1891, blissfully unaware that, in the years to come, so many people would leave the hyphen out of Moby-Dick.
Richard Armour
#62. If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.
Vincent Van Gogh
#63. Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.
J. Ogden Armour
#64. Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.
Richard Armour
#65. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Michel Houellebecq
#67. If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!
Terry Pratchett
#68. I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.
Tom Brady
#70. (Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
Richard Armour
#71. All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.
George Mason
#72. This arrogant, perfumed young noble, in his rustling silks and polished lamellar armour, knew nothing of the hardships of war.
David Pilling
#73. Sensible men are getting more liberal; they are removing the old landmarks: fall in with the times. Wear your shield, Christian, therefore, close upon your armour, and cry mightily unto God, that by His Spirit you may endure to the end.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#74. Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected by any armour.
Kevin McLeod
#76. When you live in holiness, when you really try to stop sinning, you become braver. You become more courageous, you become a man of your word. You become a man of conviction that you're not willing to sell out and you're really a true knight in shining armour.
Jim Caviezel
#77. The hand is quicker than the eye is,
but somewhat slower than the fly is.
Richard Armour
#78. I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.
Anthony Warlow
#79. Her nakedness was not vulnerability, but armour.
Robin Hobb
#80. There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.
Richard Armour
#81. The sky can never be frozen
because its vastness has chosen
all warmth of our lives as we look above
with unbreakable hearts armoured in love
Munia Khan
#82. Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.
Richard Armour
#83. No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Philip Danforth Armour
#84. That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye
Richard Armour
#85. I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.
Jennifer Aniston
#86. Defiance: I see a little girl in pretend armour, fighting off all the things she doesn't want to be. Well
Nina George
#88. ...and he was struck again by the religious revernce of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.
'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.
Edith Wharton
#89. We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.
William Gurnall
#90. you built a city in my head
then there were candles...
I wear your clothes
I wear your clothes like armour
I love your face
I love your face like god
Throwing Muses
#91. As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour
Daphne Guinness
#92. Scars are good. Right, Helmud? It's the body's way of making armour.
Julianna Baggott
#93. Satan is a "roaring lion, [who] walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." And he will devour us unless we "put on the whole armour [or power] of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." (See 1 Peter 5 and Ephesians 6)
Sheri Dew
#94. Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
Richard Armour
#96. She strutted into the room, armour-plated in white linen, belligerent as a battleship. The bib of her apron, starched rigid as a board, curved against a formidable bosom on which she wore her nursing badges like medals of war.
P.D. James
#97. But if the world measures a refugee according to the worst story, we will always excuse human suffering, saying it is not yet as bad as someone else's.
Victoria Armour-Hileman
#98. Some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourcists or Media Centerists, though this may be only a matter of time.
Richard Armour
#99. The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.
Richard Armour
#100. In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
Richard Armour
