Famous quotes containing the words stave and/or church:
“Come a stove boat and a stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavern is where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)