A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Some people think they are always right; they are always ready to judge those who they see as wrong!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved incontestably that… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“It felt good to stand out from the world, just mysterious and pious. You weren't a lantern under any basquet. You stood… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational,… — William Jones Copy Share Image
Advice, then, young yeoman: When referring to the king's middle daughter, state that she is fair, speculate that she is pious, but… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Get rich if you're looking for a woman, Get pious if you're looking for a wife — Boonaa Mohammed Copy Share Image
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. — Daisy Ashford Copy Share Image
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it. — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
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