Guard Hairs

Famous quotes containing the words guard and/or hairs:

“Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Though those who study are as many as the number of hairs on an ox, those who succeed are as rare as unicorns’ horns.”
—Chinese proverb.