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Pious Quotes by Mark Twain
- Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days…
- I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with…
More Pious Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude… — Lionel Blue
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused… — Conrad Black
- In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation… — Martin Chemnitz