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Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. -- Virginia Woolf
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet. -- Thomas Carlyle
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. -- Daniel Webster
Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke. -- Joe Bob Briggs
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. -- Robert Walpole
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence. -- John Strachan
If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed. -- Hulagu Khan
Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised? -- Joseph Howe
In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking. -- John Strachan
The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets. -- Barry Eisler
There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. -- Frances Burney
It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye. -- Bob Costas
The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today. -- Jim Webb
Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. -- Tom Hiddleston
It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest. -- Robert Lacey
Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car. -- Diablo Cody
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits. -- Graydon Carter
A brotherhood of venerable trees. -- William Wordsworth
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head. -- Victor Hugo
A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable. -- Mason Cooley
The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable. -- Francis Atterbury
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. -- William Shenstone
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. -- Thomas Carlyle
But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . . -- Edward Gibbon
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world. -- Leigh Hunt
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way. -- Beilby Porteus
There is no king or sovereign state That 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
A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. -- Samuel Davies
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. -- Mark Twain
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
In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head. -- Fatboy Slim
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
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
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind. -- Irvin D. Yalom
The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart. -- Allan Lokos
[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself. -- James Madison
We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories. -- Joseph Conrad
I was attracted by the curve â?? the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches. -- Oscar Niemeyer
What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding? -- Hermann Hesse
Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother. -- Victor Hugo
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough. -- Blaise Pascal
Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. -- Colley Cibber
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility. -- Rebecca West
Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant. -- Morihei Ueshiba

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