Oath of Office/religious Bodies

Famous quotes containing the words oath, office, religious and/or bodies:

    “The oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a
    tapster; they are both the confirmer of false reckonings.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can’t even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.”
    —Russell Baker (b. 1925)

    “... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “What has this bugbear Death to frighten man,
    If souls can die, as well as bodies can?”
    —Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)