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“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
William Penn
“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”
General George S. Patton
“Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies”
Charles D'Hericault
“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
Winston Churchill
“A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves”
Ovid
“God defend me from that Welsh fairy,Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!”
William Shakespeare
“[Ross defends his fast eating habits to Rachel] I grew up in a house with Monica, okay. If you didn't eat fast, you didn't eat.”
David Schwimmer
“The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?”
Judith Hayes