A Quote by Thomas Hughes

Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen. — © Thomas Hughes
Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.
We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.
To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.
A lifevest protects you from drowning and a bulletproof vest protects you from getting shot, and a sweater vest protects you from pretty girls.
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.
The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.
Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.
To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,But 'tis so far away - and you are near.Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;Men of hereafters talk, and future lives,O love, there is no other life - but here.
The reason the church doesn't deal with some of these questions about Heaven is they're afraid of the answers! If you could have babies in Heaven, then you could have sex in Heaven!-And that's horrifying to the churches!
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become "present" within it.
To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.
The definition of mantra is "that which protects the mind." That which protects the mind from negativity, or that which protects you from your own mind, is called mantra.
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