Freemason Quotes

#1. Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#4. Mr. Boffin, as if he were about to have his portrait painted, or to be electrified, or to be made a Freemason, or to be placed at any other solitary disadvantage, ascended the rostrum prepared for him.

Charles Dickens

#5. The term "universal" Freemason marks only an arrogant wish and surrenders the efforts of every Freemason away from the beauty of self-determination

Vasilios Karpos

#6. I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason.

Charles Taze Russell

#7. It has been demonstrated that freemason - in an operative context - is a contraction of 'freestone mason' ... The earliest printed use so far traced comes in The Pilgrimage of Perfection - usually attributed to William Bonde - printed in 1536 by Wynkyn de Worde.

John Hamill

#8. Sparks is a sporting charity that puts on golf tournaments for sick children, and my animal charities include Oldham Cats and Feline Care, a big cat charity close to me in Norfolk. I'm also a Freemason and the money they raise for charity is phenomenal.

Rick Wakeman

#9. People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.

Graham Hancock

#10. I'm a Freemason, and we love to celebrate Burns' night: piping in the haggis, the whole lot.

Rick Wakeman

#11. I craved for the past, resented the present, and dreaded the future.

Wilfred Thesiger

#12. Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.

Hiromu Arakawa

#13. Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.

Happy Rockefeller

#14. I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.

Carolina Herrera

#15. The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

Matt LeBlanc

#16. I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member

Groucho Marx

#17. That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak.

Lauren Oliver

#18. I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.

Sarah Zettel

#19. I don't know what first got me to attack melons. It's not like I ate a bad one and got an upset stomach. It just eventually seemed like the appropriate fruit.

Ricky Jay

#20. A normal life? Now that's the real fairytale.

Judith Graves

#21. Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

Edward Carpenter

#22. If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?

Jill Shalvis

#23. It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.

Bryant McGill