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“A good name is better than precious ointment. [Ecclesiastes 7:1]”
Bible
“Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.”
“Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, / Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? / This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.”
“Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.”
“And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.”
“(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) / Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.”
“Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.”
Ogden Nash
“And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? / For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.”
“The only fly in the ointment was that goal in the first half in one of their infrequent trips (in the Wizards' defensive end). There were a couple of decisions we needed to make better. Then we got a little apprehensive after that. We were teetering a little bit. Two-zero leads in the recent past haven't been good to us.”
Bob Gansler
“A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.”
