Famous quotes containing the words clergy, appreciation and/or week:
“To impose celibacy on such a large body as the clergy of the Catholic Church is not to forbid it to have wives but to order it to be content with the wives of others.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (17121778)
“We are tempted to say that his genius was feminine, not masculine. It was such a feminineness, however, as is rarest to find in woman, though not the appreciation of it; perhaps it is not to be found at all in woman, but is only the feminine in man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers absent hours
More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
O weary reckoning!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)