Sayings about Priests
A priest blesses his own bread first. ~ Greek Proverb
Talk to a priest and die a thousand deaths. ~ Thai Proverb
If the doctor is fasting it is bad for the priest. ~ Spanish Proverb
Get married and you will be happy for a week; slaughter a pig and you will be happy for a month; become a priest and you will be happy for the rest of your life. ~ Polish Proverb
Presents make women affable, priests indulgent, and the law crooked. ~ Danish Proverb
Honor goes to God; the priests get the bacon. ~ Russian Proverb
Priest on the outside, Satan on the inside. ~ Armenian Proverb
For our sins God has created three enemies for us: mice in the house, the fox in the mountains, and a priest in our village. ~ South American Proverb
How good at combing is the bald priest. ~ Japanese Proverb
Wars are caused by women and priests. ~ Czech Proverb
Priests and road signs show you the way but don’t go with you. ~ German Proverb
Son of a priest, grandson of the devil. ~ Greek Proverb
A priest sees people at their best, a lawyer at their worst, but a doctor sees them as they really are. ~ Traditional Proverb
The devil climbs the bell tower in a priest’s cassock. ~ Spanish Proverb
Every priest recommends his relics. ~ French Proverb
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~ Spanish Proverb
A priest is a man who is called Father by everyone except his own children who are obliged to call him Uncle. ~ Italian Proverb
It is a poor parish where the priest has to ring his own bells. ~ Polish Proverb
He that wants to keep his house clean must not let priest or pigeon into it. ~ French Proverb
The priest’s friend loses his faith, the doctor’s his health, and the lawyer’s his fortune. ~ Italian Proverb
Even Buddhist priests of the same temple quarrel occasionally. ~ Senegalese Proverb
A priest’s belly is made up of several sheepskins. ~ Russian Proverb
A long beard and a rosary will not make you a priest. ~ Bambara Proverb
Quotations about Priests
Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism. ~ John Haynes Holmes
Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry. ~ Arthur Middleton
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. ~ John Dryden
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril. ~ Alfred Loisy
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson
I think there’s a bit of the devil in everybody. There’s a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun. ~ Gabriel Byrne
It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses. ~ Pope Benedict XVI
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. ~ Charles Baudelaire
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind. ~ Henry Louis Mencken
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. ~ Gustave Flaubert
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. ~ Thomas Paine
In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
When knaves fall out, honest men get their goods; when priests dispute, we come at the truth. ~ Benjamin Franklin
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. ~ George Gurdjieff
The poet is the priest of the invisible. ~ Wallace Stevens
They said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war, and the soldier peace. ~ William Blake
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.~ William Blake
Hell is paved with priests’ skulls. ~ Saint John Chrysostom
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. ~ DeWitt Clinton
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. ~ George Meredith
The question before the human race is whether the God of nature shall govern the world by His own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles. ~ John Adams
If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? ~ Lemuel K. Washburn
I learned early on that ‘rabbi’ means teacher, not priest. ~ George Steiner
In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. ~ Emile Zola
The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.~ John O’Donohue
The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one. ~ Jesse Jackson
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~ Max Eastman
As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
Find a priest who understands English and doesn’t look like Rasputin. ~ Aristotle Onassis
A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural. ~ Park Chan-wook
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.~ Virginia Woolf
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. ~ Thomas Paine