Famous quotes containing the words oath, office, religious and/or bodies:
“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“I leave the governor’s office next week, and with it public life ... [which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“When holy and devout religious men
Are at their beads, ‘tis much to draw them thence,
So sweet is zealous contemplation.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)