Fortress Quotes

Any fortress can be stormed provided there is a way up for a donkey with a load of gold on his back.

A fortress is only as safe as the men who guard it.

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

For a man's house is his castle.

What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up dolls and placed them throughout the fortress, all because Paris had foolishly complained about the lack of female companionship in town. The plastic "ladies" had stared our from every corner, their wide eyes and let-me-suck-you mouths taunting everyone who passed them. Things like that happened when Torin was bored.

My bedroom's like an armoury.

They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.

My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

Your home is your castle—protect it.

A man's house is his castle.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

A fortress is of no use to cowards.