Parable Originally

Famous quotes containing the words parable and/or originally:

“Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 25:21.

Here and in 25:23, said to the two “profitable servants” in the parable of the talents.

“Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)