Quotes of Frankincense - somelinesforyou

“ The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly. ”

- Sean O’Casey

“ I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal. ”

- Erma Bombeck
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