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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock,
first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
- William M. Evarts
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner,
Vermont.
- Clarence Darrow
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
- Chauncey Depew
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth,
the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing
the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord
with the law of God and man.
- Nelson A. Miles
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands,
and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies,
had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly
wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
- Albert Bushnell Hart
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people
in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns.
Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns.
Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
- P. J. O'Rourke
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers;
decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
- Lionel Blue
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Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
- Billy Sunday
The real problem is not why some pious,
humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
- C. S. Lewis
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious
ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to
wait for a completely godless Jew?
- Sigmund Freud
For the myth is the foundation of life;
it is the timeless schema,
the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces
its traits out of the unconscious.
- Thomas Mann
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
- Thomas Fuller
I am calling attention just to the main points of these
tremendously important matters,
which can be understood better by pious meditation
than explained by human language.
- Martin Chemnitz
Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
- Georg Hermes
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some
whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
- Daisy Ashford
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
- Herbert Spencer
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -
a pious guardian of some affection,
of which the object has disappeared.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague,
enormous and menacing.
- Aleister Crowley
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese
are incapable of religious experience,
even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
- Hu Shih
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary,
much of the industrialized world has not yet come to
terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I
call the strong man syndrome.
- Wole Soyinka
Your meditations may be as profound,
as exalted,
as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage,
but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament.
What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
- Johannes Tauler
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state!
It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord.
It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous
endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
- Saint Teresa of Avila
Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of
worship according to it had,
properly speaking, never had any existence;
and,
moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that
even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.
- Julius Wellhausen
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment
from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious.
On the other hand, they do less easily move against him,
believing that he has the gods on his side.
- Aristotle
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the
future instead of merely trying with pious regret to
salvage the human wreckage of the famine,
as he has so often done in the past.
- Norman Borlaug
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.
what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries
the indignation of a pious spirit,
with its natural following of oppressed souls,
will cast down with a single shove.
- Jose Marti
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
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