Famous quotes containing the words fear god, fear and/or god:
“Fear God, and where you go, men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked.... In other words, I don’t improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)