Arms Quotes

Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess. (Samuel Johnson)
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. View quote
Victor Hugo
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice. View quote
Moshe Dayan
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (Douglas MacArthur)
Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. View quote
Emil Cioran
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. View quote
Steven Wright
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! View quote
Robert Browning
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Russians can give you arms, but only the United States can give you a solution. View quote
Anwar Sadat
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. View quote
Aristotle
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. View quote
James Madison
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. (Thomas Paine)
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. View quote
Georg Büchner
It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without becoming soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness. View quote
Edward Gibbon
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning, In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night's arms. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
📖 Arms Proverbs