Armour is light at table. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There's no armour against fate. [ Shirley ]

A hog in armour is still but a hog. [ Proverb ]

It is absurd to warm one in his armour. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Philosophers are only men in armour after all. [ Dickens ]

Put off your armour and then shew your courage. [ Proverb ]

It is not the armour, but the right placing of it. [ Proverb ]

A thread-bare coat is armour-proof against highwaymen. [ Proverb ]

Suspicion is a heavy armour, and with its own weight impedes more than protects. [ Byron ]

The soul's armour is never well set to the heart unless a woman's hand has braced it. [ John Ruskin ]

Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour, at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself. [ Peacham ]

I pick up favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these there is a very favourite one from Thomson: Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds
And offices of life; to life itself,
With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose. [ Burns ]