Guarded Quotes

• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Fighting, Fairy Stories

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail.

  Winkie Pratney

  Heart, Effort, Secret

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• Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

  Dorothy Uhnak

  Dream, Evil, Quitting

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• An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Motivation, Lying

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works”, p.393

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• When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

  Patricia Heaton

  Emotional, Support, Littles

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• This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

  Ed Helms

  Jobs, Boisterous, May

  "20Q: Ed Helms". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. May 30, 2011.

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• A lie is an excuse guarded

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Excuse, Dare

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• Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Wise, Subtle

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• If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Crazy, Mean

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• For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

  Aeschylus

  Marriage, Fate, Men

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• Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.

  Joseph Story

  Blessing, Blood, America

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• We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Wall, Military, Gun

  "A Few Good Men". www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Love, Jobs, Age

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• The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

  William Bolitho

  Hands, Imagination, Police

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• When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

  Claire Bloom

  Stars, Children, England

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• Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

  James Madison

  Government, Religion, Atheism

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• I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Thinking, Northerners, New Yorkers

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• It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to unsurpastion on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Gov't from interfence in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others.

  James Madison

  Order, Rights, Doubt

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• Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

  Aeschylus

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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• Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

  Patrick Stewart

  Character, Ideas, Interesting

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• What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Environmental, Needs

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

  Cathy Freeman

  Breathe, Relaxed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

  Russell Lynes

  Taste, Estimation, Good Taste

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Men, Sea, Mind

  "The Evolution of A Revolt". The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, October 1920.

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• As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Games, Yellow

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