Slander is worse than cannibalism.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

A comprehended god is no god.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.

Each man has his own fortune in his hands as the artist has a piece of rude matter which he is to fashion to a certain shape. But the art of living rightly is like all arts the capacity alone is born with us it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.

For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field.

You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

The beautiful thing about memories is that they are yours; whether they are good, bad, or indifferent. They belong to you, and no matter where you are now.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there.

I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.

DJ Qualls and I have been best friends for I don't even know how long - since I was a kid, 14, 15, many, many years.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system.

I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.