Quotes of Guardian - somelinesforyou

“ In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;All quit their spere, and rush into the skies!Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes,Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. ”

- Henry Clay

“ A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't. ”

- Jack Dempsey

“ Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them! ”

- Michael Moore

“ I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion. ”

- Billie Jean King

“ Men would be angels, angels would be gods. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. ”

- Edward Abbey

“ It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound. ”

- Lord Justice Topes

“ Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death. ”

- Miyamoto Musashi

“ Thought and action are the jailers of Fate — they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom — they liberate being noble. ”

- James Allen

“ In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. ”

- Motto

“ Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy. ”

- Luis Figo

“ I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days. ”

- Archbishop Derek Worlock

“ My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ”

- Billy Connolly

“ Inches make champions. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? ”

- Bible

“ Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. ”

- George Herbert

“ And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. ”

- Bible

“ Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror. - The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. ”

- Johan August Strindberg

“ But above all things truth is victor. ”

- Bible

“ To the victors belong the spoils. ”

- Andrew Jackson

“ Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north. ”

- Ernest Thompson Seton

“ I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end. ”

- Larry Merchant
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