“Haste is of the Devil.”

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Speak of the Devil and he shall appear.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!

You start believing in god when the devil finds you.