Top 36 Friar Quotes
#1. Morning larks called to one another from the shallows at the river's edge, and the sky began to silver behind the friar like a halo.
Julie Berry
#2. Then all was quiet save only for the low voices of those that talked together, ... , and saving, also, for the mellow snoring of Friar Tuck, who enjoyed his sleep with a noise as of one sawing soft wood very slowly.
Howard Pyle
#3. 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
#4. Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, to comfort thee, though thou art banished. Friar Lawrence to Romeo.
William Shakespeare
#6. Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made,
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade,
The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd,
The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
Alexander Pope
#7. Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened.
- Friar Tuck
Stephen R. Lawhead
#8. The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.
Germaine Greer
#9. Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!
Jose Rizal
#10. That is the lightest coffin I have ever carried," observed one of Romeo's companions. "Your [bell]ringer must have been a very slender man, Friar Lorenzo. Make sure to choose a fat one next time that he may stand more firmly in that windy bell tower.
Anne Fortier
#11. I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
Walter Scott
#12. She had seen him once, smiling a little through another friar's sermon about Hell, saying after the other left that fear of Hell is one of many paths to it. Forget Hell and love one another. That is all He wants of you.
Christopher Buehlman
#13. What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
John O'Keefe
#14. Careful!" warned Friar Lorenzo, trying to close the lid. "You know not what infection those lips carry!
Anne Fortier
#15. The leader of the Christian army - Cardinal Pelagius himself - had warned the friar from Assisi that it would be folly to traverse the battlefield between the two armies to seek out this Sultan Malik al-Kamil.
Paul Moses
#16. There is a pleasure sure
In being mad, which none but madmen know.
Dryden, The Spanish Friar II, i
Gerald Durrell
#17. During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.
David Roberts
#18. When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually brought a bit of sunshine to my day. I was thinking: fat suit. I was thinking: shaving my head. It was so outlandish, such a crazy idea.
David Harewood
#19. You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!"
"And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he
turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed.
Judith McNaught
#21. One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.
Phil Ochs
#22. The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.
Confucius
#23. Are you absolutely sure there are no absolutes?
Patrick Friar
#24. Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
Fredrik Bajer
#25. Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
William Shakespeare
#26. I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.
Elsa Peretti
#27. I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop. There's always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that.
Kelly Clarkson
#28. The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women's shame.
Laurie Penny
#29. Sometimes I get the feeling that everything that happened to me was some kind of illusion. It's as though something happened to make me think that things happened that never really happened at all. But I know for sure that they did happen.
Haruki Murakami
#31. During his interviews, he was unable to find essential answers to his ultimate questions: 1. What is man? 2. How should man live?
Nathan Bellow
#32. I can't say that music ever made me do anything.
Pusha T
#33. Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
Stokely Carmichael
#34. The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.
Jonathan Potter
#35. What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
Fernand Leger
#36. You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.
Frederick Lenz
