A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
Boris Spassky

He who defends everything defends nothing.
Frederick II

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Bishop Robert South

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
Nathalie Sarraute

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
Maimonides

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Marshall McLuhan

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Bronson Alcott

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill