The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/33144/view">The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3214/Kenneth_Hare">Hare, Kenneth</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/33145/view">The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4581/Thomas_B._Macaulay">Macaulay, Thomas B.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/33146/view">The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4937/H._L._Mencken">Mencken, H. L.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/33147/view">Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4937/H._L._Mencken">Mencken, H. L.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/33148/view">What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5695/Wendell_Phillips">Phillips, Wendell</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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