Richard Hooker Quotes

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Richard Hooker
I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.

Richard Hooker
Alteration though it be from worse to better hath in it inconveniences, and those weighty.

Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

Richard Hooker
As for probabilities, what thing was there ever set down so agreeable with sound reason but some probable show against it might be made.

Richard Hooker
There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

Richard Hooker
I thought the movie was great but the television thing isn't my kind of humor. It's someone else's idea of what medical humor is supposed to be.

Richard Hooker
So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

Richard Hooker
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.

Richard Hooker
Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.

Richard Hooker
For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.

Richard Hooker
See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

Richard Hooker
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

Richard Hooker
No. No booze. Sex. I want sex. That one. The sultry bitch with fire in her eyes. Bring her to me. Take her clothes off and bring her to me.

Richard Hooker
Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage,—the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

Richard Hooker