Holy

Famous quotes containing the word holy:

“Even the newts are white,

Those holy Joes.
And the fish, the fish—
Christ! they are panes of ice.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

“In sober mornings do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse;”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.”
—Italian proverb, pt. 5, epigraph, Graham Hancock, Lords of Poverty (1989)