Quotes About Venerable

As old as the hills.

He's pretty old. Probably more or less ga ga.

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

Those who, from a pretended respect to antiquity, appeal at every turn to an original plan for the constitution, only cover their turbulent spirit and their private ambition under the appearance of venerable forms.

Slave-trading seems to have been coeval with the knowledge of iron. The monuments of Egypt show that this curse has venerable antiquity. Some people say, "If so ancient, why try to stop an old established usage now?" Well, some believe that the affliction that befel the most ancient of all the patriarchs, Job, was small-pox. Why then stop the ravages of this venerable disease in London and New York by vaccination?

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

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Guide valiantly.Guide venerably.Guide valiantly.Guide virtuously.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 'tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old

Es un raro placer que nos ahorma hallar un viejo libro con la ropa que usaba en aquel tiempo, creo que un privilegio. Cogerle de la mano venerable, calentarla en la nuestra y dar un paso o dos hacia el pasado, al tiempo en que era joven.

Kali with the most primal form of nature, before culture and outside culture, unaffected by rules and opinions of humanity. She is power, raw and elemental, both venerable and frightening. Human society is created within her; she ultimately consumes human society.

ATT. Venus, who hath her station at thy gates. HIPP. I, who am chaste, salute her at a distance. ATT. Venerable is she, however, and of note among mortals. HIPP. Different Gods and men are objects of regard to different persons.

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.

I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.

Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

Durerile mari sunt într-atât de venerabile, încât nu exist? exemplu, chiar în epocile cele mai nefericite, ca miÈ™carea dintâi a maselor s? nu fi fost o miÈ™care de simpatie pentru o mare catastrof?. MulÈ›i oameni duÈ™m?niÈ›i au fost asasinaÈ›i într-o r?scoal?; rareori pe un nenorocit, chiar dac? ar fi fost criminal, l-au insultat oamenii care asistau la condamnarea lui la moarte.

such volumes of philosophy had the air of old men about them: venerable but having lost the energy to influence a world that had moved on from them.

Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

Each tradition grows more venerable the farther its origin lies in the past, the more it is forgotten; the respect paid to the tradition accumulates from generation to generation; finally the origin becomes sacred and awakens awe.

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

He glanced at the huge somber portrait of Manfred Blackwood, my venerable ancestor.