Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits
Pope Leo XIII
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POPE LEO XIII God is not only true, but Truth itself
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POPE LEO XIII Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opini...
POPE LEO XIII Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating part...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating part...
JAMES F. COOPER As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, li...
JAN HUS Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide charact...
TRYON EDWARDS A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
JENNY CRAIG People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of une...
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LEO XIII The highest duty is to respect authority
LEO XIII The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties...
DENIS DIDEROT Dogs fucked the Pope, no fault of mine. Watch out! . . . Why money? My name is Brinks; I was born . ...
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence.
JAKE VANDER-ARK My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My...
NORA EPHRON The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
ABIGAIL ADAMS Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assaul...
MARY KAY BLAKELY Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals
MARK TWAIN Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our char...
HENRY HANCOCK [Christianity is] the most ... perverted system that ever shone on man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no m...
MARK TWAIN Considering that 47.4% of the babies born in the US arrive as bastards, or if you prefer, born to un...
BOBBY W. MILLER No one delights more in vengeance than a woman.
Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH For shit’s sake, it wasn’t like there was a twelve-step for being the Scribe Virgin’s kid:
J.R. WARD Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live wit...
MARK MATTESON Sick and perverted always appeals to me.
MADONNA Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the...
POPE FRANCIS However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart a...
VIRGILIA PETERSON However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart a...
VIRGILIA PETERSON To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meanin...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again
JOHN M SHEEHAN 'Having' Your Cake....a little perverted....
'Eating' it too.....a lot perverted!
JOSH STERN Titanic city" was born.
It's the song, they said.
No, the sea, the luxury, the ship.
...
KHALED HOSSEINI How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we...
LUCILLE BALL The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there were a rewards card...
RICK RIORDAN It was almost immediate that we started to see Pope Benedict items and memorabilia come onto the sit...
HANI DURZY Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite ...
DOUGLAS FEITH If only it be admitted that art may be unintelligible to any one of sound mind and yet be art, there...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY nut, perverted, lunatic, stalker and so forth.
KEITH BUTLER My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in...
HOPE JAHREN It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though t...
WALTER ISAACSON I have learned that champions aren't just born; champions can be made when they embrace and comm...
LEWIS HOWES Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
WALTER LANG Maybe I'm some sort of perverted cartoon-sexual.
RAINBOW ROWELL All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really
MANU JOSEPH My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of...
AGA KHAN IV Books follow morals, and not morals books.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Love. Honesty leads to trust. Trust leads to commitment. Commitment leads to security. Security lead...
HOWARD MANN The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
ANNETTE FUNICELLO Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. “Narcissus is a loser! He’s so ...
RICK RIORDAN But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will ...
LEO TOLSTOY She grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss, which effectively shut him up.
RICK RIORDAN In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. The...
FRANK MILLER Devil has perverted God’s truth and people lack the knowledge of this truth
SUNDAY ADELAJA Mike is a little guy, about 285 pounds, and Leo is about 355 pounds. Leo has really improved. He len...
DIRK KOETTER Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
OSCAR WILDE Human nature is not of itself vicious.
THOMAS PAINE Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
OSCAR WILDE Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.
ROBIN WRIGHT Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
VOLTAIRE Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty er...
DOROTHEA DIX Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They�...
SARAH DESSEN The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
BILLE AUGUST Most things that declare the glory of God can be perverted to worship.
CHUCK MISSLER There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man
THOMAS JEFFERSON This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or...
MAX HEINDEL We're playing with a target on our back. This is a vicious, vicious league.
STEVE REBHOLZ The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.'
'No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a P...
RICK RIORDAN Like your zodiac sign? Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.
'No, stupid,' Leo said. I'm a Leo. You're a Per...
RICK RIORDAN A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants ...
JEAN KERR Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
PROVERB Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
FRENCH PROVERB To me [the pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism.
MEHMET AGCA Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE It's an excellent staff and Leo is a tremendous addition.
WAYNE PUGLISI The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
SALLUST Intention is the image of the soul, and the essence of morals
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Our rulers, who rule our symbols, and so rule a symbolic class of life, impose their own infantilism...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
SAM HUNT To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the pow...
A.E. SAMAAN I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the ki...
MAC DAVIS I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER The Habits are important... it's very important what type of habits do you have added in your life.
DEYTH BANGER To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.
TYLER, THE CREATOR Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE I wouldn't know where to start."
"He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it...
KAMI GARCIA If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. T...
WILLIAM BECKFORD I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute...
QUINCY JONES I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop...
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ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
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Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h...
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[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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POPE FRANCIS The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
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Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til...
ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ...
CARLY POPE I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.
CARLY POPE I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's no...
CARLY POPE People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's...
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CARLY POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
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"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS It doesn't bother me that people think that Blake Shelton made me go country, because I can unde...
CASSADEE POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
ALEXANDER POPE Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
ALEXANDER POPE Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
ALEXANDER POPE Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
ALEXANDER POPE Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
ALEXANDER POPE From pride, from pride, our very reas
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPE An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPE All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ALEXANDER POPE For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Die and endow a college or a cat.
ALEXANDER POPE But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heav...
ALEXANDER POPE Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
ALEXANDER POPE True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
ALEXANDER POPE Wit is the lowest form of humor.
ALEXANDER POPE True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Placed on this...
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow d...
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There sha...
ALEXANDER POPE Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
ALEXANDER POPE In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
ALEXANDER POPE You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
ALEXANDER POPE Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
ALEXANDER POPE Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a...
ALEXANDER POPE Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
ALEXANDER POPE True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
ALEXANDER POPE When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
ALEXANDER POPE I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
ALEXANDER POPE Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk...
ALEXANDER POPE Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
ALEXANDER POPE What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
ALEXANDER POPE I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
ALEXANDER POPE Health consists with temperance alone.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part; there all honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE An honest man's the noblest work of God.
ALEXANDER POPE Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
ALEXANDER POPE For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
ALEXANDER POPE And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
ALEXANDER POPE We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
ALEXANDER POPE To err is human; to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; ALEXANDER POPE By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
ALEXANDER POPE To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged th...
ALEXANDER POPE Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more ...
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
ALEXANDER POPE An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
ALEXANDER POPE Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
ALEXANDER POPE One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...
ALEXANDER POPE Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! l...
ALEXANDER POPE Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
ALEXANDER POPE Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
ALEXANDER POPE Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
ALEXANDER POPE The starving chemist in his golden views
Supremely blest.
ALEXANDER POPE Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand,
And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
ALEXANDER POPE Our rural ancestors with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulg'd the d...
ALEXANDER POPE In cold December fragrant chaplets blow,
And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
ALEXANDER POPE The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
ALEXANDER POPE Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame,
Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n,
Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;
But such...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
ALEXANDER POPE Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE The blest to-day is as completely so,
As who began a thousand years ago.
ALEXANDER POPE Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
ALEXANDER POPE Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,
With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
ALEXANDER POPE Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye...
ALEXANDER POPE Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps,
And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
ALEXANDER POPE Accept a miracle; instead of wit,--
See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
P...
ALEXANDER POPE A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
ALEXANDER POPE Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme,
The air-built castle, and the golden dream,
...
ALEXANDER POPE In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs,
What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
ALEXANDER POPE See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep,
And all the western world believe and sleep.
ALEXANDER POPE