piety quotes

The weaker sex, to piety more prone.

- Sir William Alexander
  Of women.'Doomsday', Fifth Hour.

The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

- Edward Fitzgerald
  The Ruba  iya  t of Omar Khayya  m of Naishapur, stanza 51.

Menalwaystry tomake virtues oftheir weaknesses.Fear of death and fear of life become piety.

- H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

-William Wordsworth
  'My heart leaps up when I behold', complete poem (published1807).