Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Brigham Young

I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.

Scott Roy

We won't be looking past Catholic to Westminster or anything like that. Monday is what we are looking for.

Broderick Crawford

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

St. Jerome

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

St. Jerome

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

St. Jerome

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Tom T. Hall

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

Ayn Rand

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Juvenal

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

C. S. Lewis

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Jane Austen

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

Brent Weeks

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

John Grisham

We didn't want to leave. You feel guilty because you can hop on a plane and come back home where everything works and everything is standing,

Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Anne Spencer

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Robert A. Heinlein

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

Donna Leon

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Confucius

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

Amin Maalouf

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

Robert Grosseteste

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.