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Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit. — Saint Basil

And always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on ... — Basil Bunting

Poetry doesn't pay. But I need it. And so do you. — Cory Basil

Then they started a fire
And I burnt to ashes — Cory Basil

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me. — John Cleese

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. — Basil O'Connor

All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism. — Saint Basil

i dream a thousand
words before i
sleep. — Cory Basil

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person. — Basil Hume

We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal. — Saint Basil

The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas. — Basil Wolverton

The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. Basil Hallward's compliments — Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much. — Basil Rathbone

With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish. — Basil Moreau

Men are fools to invest in real estate. — Basil Bunting

A man taking basil from a woman will love her always. — Thomas More

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor. — Saint Basil

Words are truly the image of the soul. — Basil The Great

How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless. — Basil Moreau

Capital," cried Basil. "I could eat a stag, antlers and all. I say they they do make a wonderful nosebag for us wounded heroes, y'know. — Brian Jacques

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. — Oscar Wilde

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones. — Basil Moreau

It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly. - Basil Gildersleeve D — Ann Patty

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated. — Saint Basil

As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I. — Cory Basil

tree in bloom, a white farmhouse - potted basil in the kitchen — Nancy Reisman

It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all. — Basil Moreau

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset. — Pete Townshend

For some strange reason, beans always fall off knives. — Basil Wolverton

Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem. — Basil McRae

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune. — Saint Basil

The hardship in living out the vision comes from human frailty, and want of understanding; not from evil or malice. "Men — Basil Johnston

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. — Saint Basil

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people. — Basil Rathbone

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to. — Basil W. Maturin

Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in "No-Till" by Basil Pearl. — Basil Pearl

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. — Oscar Wilde

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston. — John Logan

Basil Donovan was drunk again. — Robert Silverberg

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself. — Basil Bunting

Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room. — Cory Basil

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater. — Claire Forlani

Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair. — Oscar Wilde

Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps. — Oscar Wilde

Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, — Oscar Wilde

Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator. — Saint Basil

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit ... One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts ... — Saint Basil

I'm more of a thistle-peony-basil kind of girl. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia. — Basil Bunting

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another. — Saint Basil

If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it. — Saint Basil

When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not? — Saint Basil

It's hard to tell whether or
not hell's flames are getting
closer — Cory Basil

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? — Basil Bunting

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. — Basil Rathbone

I trembled. I was done. This was it. I wanted to die, right here in the kitchen, beside my precious basil. — Scott Hildreth

Whose fault is it, then? Dennis Compton's (Basil Fawlty) — John Cleese

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience. — Saint Basil

I move forward
with my
drawer of treasures
that will never decay. — Cory Basil

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers. — Saint Basil

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17). — Saint Basil

He wore pink linen slacks, white sneakers and a canary yellow open-neck shirt. He evidently thought himself hot stuff. — Basil Copper

a first kiss is like a drug — Cory Basil

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. — Basil Hume

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams. — Saint Basil

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. — Basil Bunting

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health. — Saint Basil

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things. — Saint Basil

Clever name by the way Basil Pearl, spicy and cultured, sweet jewels with a twist of savory."
~ Ron Shaw, The Ron Shaw Show — Ron Shaw

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting. — Saint Basil

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others. — Saint Basil

Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God. — Saint Basil

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them. — Saint Basil

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line. — Basil Bunting

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. — Basil Bunting

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose. — Basil Bunting

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life. — Basil Hume

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him. — Saint Basil

annunciations are frequent. incarnations are rare. — Saint Basil

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? — Saint Basil

My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil. — Isabella Rossellini

Nothing, Basil. I'll see you in a few,"
Fine, and it's Lord Basil."
Even in the bedroom?"
Especially in the bedroom. — Adrian Phoenix

Tip: To avoid bruising the basil, Mama tore the leaves into pieces with her fingers. Chopping is fine, but you won't have basil-scented fingers. — Johnny Carrabba

Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes. — Sirio Maccioni

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses. — Basil Hume

who you are is who you are when you are alone. — Cory Basil

Don't bury your sense of wonder. It's a rare thing, and one of the things I adore most about you" -Basil — Lauren DeStefano

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought. — Basil Bunting

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight. — Saint Basil

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166 — Basil Bunting

Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place. — Cory Basil

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. — Saint Basil

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God. — Saint Basil

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him. — Oscar Wilde

The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed. — Saint Basil

was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his — Oscar Wilde

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. — Saint Basil

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. — Saint Basil

They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love. — Saint Basil

The mason stirs.
Words!
Pens are too light.
Take a chisel to write. — Basil Bunting