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When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given… — Robert Staughton Lynd
My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay. — Milton Berle
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as… — James Frey
America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max… — Dennis Miller
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains. — William Henry O'Connell
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep. — Louis Kronenberger
It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full… — Phillips Brooks
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions… — Carlisle Floyd
He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of… — Robert E. Howard
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. — Caleb Cushing
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries,… — Umberto Eco
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the… — Hugh Hefner
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we… — Barbara Jordan
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level. — Damian Lewis
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is… — Howard Nemerov
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans. — Vivienne Westwood
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one… — J I Packer
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H. L. Mencken
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as… — H. L. Mencken
[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the… — Thomas Watson
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as… — Jonathan Edwards
Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins. — Thomas Brooks
If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for… — Stephen King
Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the… — Stephen King

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