No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .