Friars Quotes

• Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!

  Jose Rizal

  Names, Strange, Remember

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• Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Thinking, Impossible, Possibility

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• Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.116, Classic Books Company

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• Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wise, Running

  1595 Friar Laurence to Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.94.

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• John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.

  Mickey Rooney

  Friendship, Honor, Clubs

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• A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Years, Christianity, Thousand

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• The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Clouds, Beads

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.6

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• Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

  Daniel Defoe

  Certain, Taxes, Faustus

  1726 History of the Devil, bk.2, ch.6. 0 See also Franklin 335:18.

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• For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Special, Earth

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.15-18.

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• Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
  Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

  William Shakespeare

  Abuse, Birth, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

  William Shakespeare

  Vices, Action, Juliet

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.21-2.

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• Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

  John Burroughs

  Mother, Religious, Nature

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.223, Syracuse University Press

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• These violent delights have violent ends.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Romeo And Juliet Love, Delight

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.5, l.9.

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• It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fall, Writing, Rome

  Memoirs of My Life ch. 6 (1796)

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• I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

  Gregor Mendel

  Confidence, Believe In Yourself, Long

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• Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

  Anthony of Padua

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

  Girolamo Savonarola

  Love, God, Christian

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 378, 1895.

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• Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

  Albertus Magnus

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  "Discovering the cosmos". Book by R.C. Bless, p. 686, 1996.

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• Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

  Brian Jacques

  Voice, Broken, Old Friends

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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• Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

  Richard Rohr

  Names, Creating, Special

  Richard Rohr (2012). “Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

  Francis of Assisi

  God, Faith, Inspiration

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• All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Cheer Up, Positive Thinking

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• I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Angel, Want, Praying

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• The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Dream, Book, Knights

  'The Ingoldsby Legends' (First Series, 1840) 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'

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• I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

  Walter Scott

  Green, Sin, Cloaks

  Walter Scott (1863). “Ivanhoe a Romance”, p.136

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