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As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. — Sydney Smith

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts. — Hosea Ballou

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister. — Henrik Pontoppidan

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects. — Vladimir Putin

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen. — Harper Lee

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. — St. Jerome

CAN OFFER YOU A TOW OR WOULD YOU PREFER US TO HEAVE TO AND WIND UP YOUR ELASTIC BANDS AGAIN SIGNED CLINT CHIEF OFFICER END. — Brian Callison

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces. — Carl Jung

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? — Pat Robertson

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business. — St. Jerome

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate. — George Carlin

It is, after all, many centuries since clergymen distinguished themselves on the field of war, and lawyers never have. — Susanna Clarke

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. — Robert Southey

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life. — Samuel Johnson

This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing. — Ed Westwick

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm. — Bertrand Russell

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men. — Elizabeth Aston

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live. — Voltaire

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? — George Carlin

Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. — Alan W. Watts

The defects of a preacher are soon spied. — Martin Luther

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. — George Carlin

Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish. — Billy Graham

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good. — Jodie Foster

Across the river, a row of crystal castles glittered in the sunlight in a way that would make Walt Disney want to throw rocks at his Magic Kingdom. — Shannon Messenger

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous. — James Gibbons

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone. — Craig Ferguson

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics. — Gregory Nunn

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered. — William Nelson