Quote

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Jeremy Taylor

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
Author
Priest
Theologian
Writer
Great
Ridiculous
Always
Anger
Cause
Terrible
Either
Causes
Small
Proceeds
Turns
Fury

More quotes by Jeremy Taylor

Image
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
My life is blessed I have held my children's children.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.
Jeremy Taylor
Image
In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.
Jeremy Taylor