Guard Quotes

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. (George Sand)
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. View quote
Daniel Webster
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. View quote
Joseph Addison
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. View quote
Gerald Ford
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. View quote
George Washington
But who will guard the guardians themselves? View quote
Juvenal
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. View quote
Graham Greene
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . View quote
Anne Brontë
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. View quote
Henri Matisse
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. (Mark Twain)
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. View quote
Thomas Paine
You dont learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye. View quote
Joseph Addison
Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses. View quote
Jane Jacobs
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber Holy angels guard thy bed Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. View quote
Isaac Watts
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men. View quote
Eric Hoffer
If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in. View quote
Tim Roth
I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way. View quote
Christine McVie
The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less. View quote
Howard Coble
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' (Harold H. Greene)
I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist. View quote
Ida Lupino
I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard. View quote
Sergio Aragones
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. View quote
George Takei
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice. View quote
William Hazlitt
📖 Guard Proverbs