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- Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,… — Alexander Pope
- A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that… — Edmund Burke
- The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies… — Mark Twain
- Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman
- In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and… — Oliver Goldsmith
- The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. — William Cowper
- I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were… — Bertrand Russell
- Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.