Meeting Houses

Famous quotes containing the words meeting and/or houses:

    When one drinks with a friend, a thousand cups are not enough, but when there is no meeting of minds, half a sentence can be too much.
    Chinese proverb.

    It breedeth no small offence and scandal to see and consider upon the one part the curiosity and cost bestowed by all sorts of men upon their private houses; and on the other part the unclean and negligent order and spare keeping of the houses of prayer by permitting open decays and ruins of coverings of walls and windows, and by appointing unmeet and unseemly tables with foul cloths for the communion of the sacrament.
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)