Matters

Famous quotes containing the word matters:

“At the time there was a claustral monk named Frere Jean of the Hashes, who was young, gallant, joyful, good natured, dextrous, bold, adventurous, thoughtful, tall, thin, with a capacious mouth, gifted in the nose, a great dispatcher of hours, quite an accomplisher of masses, a quick doer-in of vigils,—to put it in a nutshell, a true monk if ever there’s been one since this monk of a world first monked out a monk; moreover, a cleric to his very teeth in matters of the breviary.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?”
—E.C. (Edmund Clerihew)