No priest no mass. [ Proverb ]

Like priest, like people. [ Proverb ]

God's friend, priest's foe. [ German Proverb ]

A mad parish must have a mad priest. [ Proverb ]

Such as the priest such is the clerk. [ Proverb ]

He fell upon whatever was offered, like
A priest, a shark, an alderman, or pike. [ Byron ]

You are a fine fellow to fetch the devil a priest. [ Proverb ]

Not every parish priest can wear Dr. Luther's shoes. [ Proverb ]

This country is not priest-ridden, but press-ridden. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The chapel is not so little, but the priest may say service in it. [ Proverb ]

Beware of the fore part of a woman, the hind part of a mule, and all sides of a priest. [ Proverb ]

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. [ Colton ]

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition. [ Emerson ]

Look at home, father priest, mother priest; your church is a hundredfold heavier responsibility than mine can be. Your priesthood is from God's own hands. [ Ward Beecher ]

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following openly-declared purposes, and preaching candidly-beloved and trusted creeds. [ John Ruskin ]

Government began in tyranny and force, in the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature. [ Wendell Phillips ]