Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
Francois Rabelais

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
Robert Reed

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle

But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.
Robert Smith

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
Donald Trump

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.
Joseph Rotblat

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
James Larkin

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
H. G. Bohn

Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
Fay Wray

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
Alexei Sayle

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?
Khaleda Zia

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
Jerry Lewis

Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.
Norma McCorvey

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
Alva Myrdal

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Knute Rockne

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.
Miriam Makeba

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
Roland Barthes

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Sarah Bernhardt

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
William Gibson

Free men have arms; slaves do not.
William Blackstone