A Quote by Franklin Pierce

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

Franklin Pierce

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Franklin Pierce
American - President
November 23, 1804 - October 8, 1869

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

George Berkeley

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Samuel Butler

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

Anthony Hope

Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

Al-Ma'arri

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

George Herbert

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

George Savile

Knaves will come and knaves will go.

James Cook

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.

Ameen Rihani

A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.

John Gower

The worst thing about religion was religious people.

Jeffrey Eugenides

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

Madeleine L'Engle

We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.

T. H. White

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