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1. Once have a priest for an enemy, good-bye
   To peace.—SARA F. ADAMS, Vivia Perpetua
   

2. As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.—BLAKE, Proverbs of Hell
   

3. They said this mystery never shall cease:
   The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.—BLAKE, Gnomic Verses
   

4. Mothers, wives, and maids,
   These be the tools wherewith priests manage fools.—BROWNING, The Ring and the Book
   

5. One great reason why clergymen's households are generally unhappy is because the clergyman is so much at home and close about the house.—SAMUEL BUTLER, The Way of All Flesh
   

6. A priest,
   A piece of mere church-furniture at best.—COWPER, Tirocinium
   

7. The Lord opened unto me that being bred at Oxford or Cambridge was not enough to fit and qualify men to be ministers of Christ.—GEORGE Fox, Journal
   

8. Nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to his country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.—VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables
   

9. In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.—JEFFERSON
   

10. Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.—ST. JEROME

11. The priest is always with the herd and against the individual.—HUGH KINGSMILL, Matthew Arnold
    

12. Vilify not your parish priest.—Proverb
    

13. Beware of the forepart of a woman, the hind part of a mule, and all sides of a priest.—Proverb
    

14. Bad priests bring the devil into the church.—Proverb
    

15. I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American
    silver dollar.—CARL SANDBURG, To a Contemporary Bunkshooter
    

16. Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.—STEVENSON, An Inland Voyage
    

17. A little round, fat, oily man of God.—JAMES THOMSON, The Castle of Indolence
    

18. Priestly vestments show, in accentuated form, all the features that have been shown to be evidence of a servile status and a vicarious life.—THORSTEIN VEBLEN, The Theory of the Leisure Class