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"If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance." »Niccola Sebastiani
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." »Jesse Stuart
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"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." »Jesse Stuart
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"The best armor is to keep out of range." »Italian Proverb
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"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Love is my Sword,
Goodness my armor,
And Humor my Shield." »Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
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"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason." »Francis Bacon
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"During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were 'just going down to the corner.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe." »Percival
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"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae." »Kurt Vonnegut
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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away." »Raymond Hull
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"The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away." »Charles Schwab
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"My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'" »Cary Grant
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"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit." »Sir Frederick G. Banting
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"Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit." »Senator Dianne Feinstein
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"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people." »F. M. Hubbard
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"Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man." »David Hume
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"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." »Katharine Hepburn
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"Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man." »David Hume
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"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then." »Katharine Hepburn
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"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it." »Maurice Chevalier
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"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." »Pete Rose
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"As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work." »Ingrid Weir
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"I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence." »Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian"
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"Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit. Max Lucado" »Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven
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"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself." »Truman Capote
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"The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him." »Cicero
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