Popes Quotes

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes. — Albert Camus

freshly dead popes are struck thrice on the forehead with a special silver hammer. — Mary Roach

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them. — Robert Payne

You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged. — Pope John XXIII

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. — William James

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build. — Philip Johnson

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes. — Trent Reznor

God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise! — Nikos Kazantzakis

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. — Thomas Huxley

God has set popes over kings and kingdoms. — Pope Boniface VIII

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites. — Sigmund Freud

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. — Edward Gibbon

Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack. — Whitney Houston

There was plenty of green light left in that orange light Em. — Jaclyn Moriarty

For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will? — William Tyndale

Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage. — Lord Byron

Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied. — Napoleon Bonaparte

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens — Tina Fey

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi

Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization? — Chris Matthews