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The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.
— Francis Atterbury
I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.
— John P. Wheeler III
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
— Robert Walpole
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.
— John Steinbeck
No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.
— Venerable Bede
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.
— Leigh Hunt
While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.
— Venerable Bede
Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.
— Venerable Bede
it is wise in such circumstances to heed the advice of the venerable North American philosopher Pamela Anderson: "Never get married on vacation.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
— Venerable Bede
But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times ...
— Edward Gibbon
There is no king or sovereign stateThat can fix a hero's rate;
Each to all is venerable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.
— Virginia Woolf
I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
— Venerable Bede
Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.
— Venerable Bede
You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.
— Catherynne M Valente
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
— William Shenstone
removal of the wool from those venerable countenances depended upon it.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
— Samuel Davies
We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.
— Venerable Bede
Through the sequester'd vale of rural lifeThe venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way. — Beilby Porteus
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
— Henry David Thoreau
As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, the whole world will fall.
— Venerable Bede
The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
— Venerable Bede
In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.
— John Taliaferro
saying. 'I want it as a birthday present to my venerable
— Esther Forbes
A brotherhood of venerable trees.
— William Wordsworth
I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.
— Sherwood Smith
