Itinerant Quotes

Let no man be an itinerant mendicant and he will not be beset with pain. - Friedrich Max Muller

It is hard to leave the world (to become a friar), it is hard to enjoy the world; hard is the monastery, painful are the houses; painful it is to dwell with equals (to share everything in common), and the itinerant mendicant is beset with pain. - Friedrich Max Muller

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals. - Benjamin Franklin

[Itinerant evangelists are also drawn to the quarter, although they seek stray souls rather than hook-ups and hangovers.] I'm here to spread the Gospel... Time is running out. Do you know Jesus? - Michael Walker

[But now, thanks to a three-year-old program called Prompt Itinerant Assistance, the government is instead going to them.] Maybe now I'll be able to get my pension... I've worked my whole life as a field hand and I've reached the right age, but until I came here, I never had any of the papers I need to be eligible, not even a birth certificate. What could I do? I don't know where the nearest notary public's office is, much less how I can get there. - Souza