Josh Cooke quotes

“How wise are they that are but fools in love!”
-- Josh Cooke

Source : "How a man may choose a Good Wife" by Josh Cooke, (Act I); Attributed in "Dictioanry of National Biography", 1970.

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“True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.”

“True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!”

“I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.”

“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

“The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.48

“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”

“Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.”

“Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.”

“Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.”