Venerable Quotes

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Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of… — Colley Cibber
There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is… — Fanny Burney
A brotherhood of venerable trees. — William Wordsworth
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. — Samuel Davies
In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often… — Rebecca West
Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God… — Frederic Farrar
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong,… — Morihei Ueshiba
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all… — Denise Levertov
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets. — Henry Ward Beecher
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. — Mark Twain
I think it is important that people be made aware that the vegetarian movement has a venerable history behind it. It didnâ€™t spring full-blown from… — Rynn Berry
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. — Thomas Carlyle
I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has enriched and strengthened… — Pope Francis
The soul is one of the most venerable, enduring images of spiritual traditions worldwide. In The Great Field, John James brings new information to this… — Larry Dossey
Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is… — Stefan Kieszling
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of,… — Albert Pike
Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the… — Virginia Woolf
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity… — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great… — Albert Pike

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