Guarded Nights

If you've got a talent, protect it. - Jim Carrey

It is not death that alarms me, but dying. - Michel De Montaigne

Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water. - Latin Proverb

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. - Clare B Luce

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. - Joseph Addison

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. - John Steinbeck

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. - Bible

Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything else you do. - Unknown

Quarantine: When a youth locks himself in his bedroom for months at a time - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them? - George Carlin

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. - Sidney Hook

Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. - Karen Russell

I wear a fun sock when I travel to give the security staff a well-deserved chuckle. - Chelsea Peretti

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. - Jack Nicholson

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson

The game is played not to protect the rules; rather, the rules are made to protect the game. - Ravi Zacharias

What a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. - C S Lewis

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly. - Marcus Aurelius

Hard work is the soundest investment. It provides a neat security for your widow's next husband. - Unknown

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.
If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. - James Allen

My parents live in a retirement community, which is basically a minimum-security prison with a golf course. - Joel Warshaw

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. - James F. Bymes

You can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you. - Mark Twain

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

Tariff: A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. - Ambrose Bierce

People confuse amassing money with security, but it is not so. What a pity to confuse real security with making money. - Billy Graham

Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well, or one day you may be your own victim. - Navajo Proverb

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. - Mark Twain

My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key. - Frederick Saunders

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself if you wish to get others. - David Seabury

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark ... to have been loved so deeply ... will give us some protection forever. - J K Rowling

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table. - Joe Biden

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