“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us”
Mark Twain
“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent”
“Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.”
Edward Young
“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
Voltaire
“Always and in everything let there be reverence.”
Confucius
“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
