Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

My own mind is my own church.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

The loneliest it gets is when the wind begins to chill and when I sit atop of your old street, the church top brings a still ness to me, there's nothingI would rather do, than have my heart broken by you.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

If the weather is extremely bad, church attendance will be down. If the weather is extremely good, church attendance will be down. If the bulletin covers are in short supply, however, church attendance will exceed all expectations.

Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. 'The days of struggle are over,' I should be able to say. 'I can look back now and tell myself I don't have a single regret.' But I do. Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. 'Harpo, my boy,' he said, 'I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember.' My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. 'Yes, sir' I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's.

From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not. Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is --the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

Never before have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church?

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

friend: So, what do you think? me: It was like the Hokey Pokey. (after my first visit to a Catholic church)

Churchill's Commentary on Man: Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

The church is the great lost and found department.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Success is never final.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.