Quotes of: Veneration Keyword

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

Malcolm Gladwell

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Robert Cecil

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

Joe Bob Briggs

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Ronald Blythe

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

Robert Walpole

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Alan Watts

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

Samuel Davies

A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Henry David Thoreau

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

Foucault's Pendulum

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Self-Reliance

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Karl Kraus

A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.

Louise L. Hay

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

Hulagu Khan

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 me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

James Boswell

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

A Familiar Rain

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 to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

Frances Burney

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

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