Proof Against Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will… — Herman Melville
We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our… — Robert Strausz-Hupe
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human… — Washington Irving
As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them… — Mark Twain
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a… — David Hume
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied… — John Ruskin
Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of… — Juvenal
None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look… — Charlotte Mason
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention. — Jack Woodford
Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the… — Samuel Chadwick
No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of… — H. L. Mencken
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof… — Ambrose Bierce
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them. — Moliere
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these… — Diana Trilling
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? — William Cowper
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose… — George Eliot
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity. — William Shakespeare
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop… — Steven Pressfield
There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most… — Edmund Burke
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. — Richard Adams

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