Venerable Quotes

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Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called… — Graydon Carter
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional… — Diablo Cody
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates… — Friedrich Nietzsche
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want… — Saint Augustine
Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and in vocations are… — Pope Benedict XVI
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones… — H. Bentley Glass
Our Lord Himself I saw in this venerable Sacrament . . . I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at… — Elizabeth Ann Seton
You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community or… — Pope Paul VI
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. — Robert Walpole
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of… — Pope Leo XIII
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much… — Marshall Sahlins
I was attracted by the curve â€” the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old… — Oscar Niemeyer
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of… — Blaise Pascal
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love… — Russell Kirk
I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians. — John P. Wheeler III

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