A Quote by Francis Bacon

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

Francis Bacon

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Armor Best Keep Out

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Abraham J. Twerski

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

Ray Bradbury

The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It's 'flip and flirty,' as my mother prescribed. It's crisp yet splendid. It makes me feel I've put on made-to-order armor. My mother's armor. Armor that helped shield me from exclusion. Armor that helped shield me from inferiority.

Margo Jefferson

When I was deployed, I could feel a full spectrum of American power keeping me safe. And yes, that was the armor on my vehicle; yes, it was the armor on my body; but it was also the armor of some level of American moral authority.

Pete Buttigieg

I think the troops deserve the best equipment on the battlefield, the best training, and American armor if they get in trouble.

Ryan Zinke

... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

Catherynne M. Valente

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

Brent Weeks

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

Robert Browning

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

Robert Frost

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

Philip Greenspun

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

Pema Chodron

We have to keep winning and looking good and keep fighting the best competition out there.

Errol Spence Jr.

Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?

Stephenie Meyer

It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.