Quotes About Worldly

Mundi honor est a sliper thinge and an elvich. Worldly fame is a treacherous and elvish thing.

And in this world, Cain's purpose succeeds. The rest of the Bible tells the story of the offspring of the Serpent dominating human affairs, as insecure fugitives gather together, convinced that this world they control is all that matters. They

Worldly wisdom teaches that is it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed. ...

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.

I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.

Peri clitatur pietas in negotiis—religion never goes in more danger than when in a crowd of worldly busi ness.