Who Said That?

"Give me chastity and self-control, but not yet."

Here's an easy one!  Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  Answer to follow next week.

Update on Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 09:44PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a rather famous quote from Augustine's Confessions, VIII.7.

Comments

[Play The Man]

Augustine

[Conor]

David Letterman

[Michael William Smith]

I believe that was Augustine.

["lee n. field"]

Augustine.

[Philip Walker]

Hippo, not Canterbury.

[Aaron]

Augistine

[Gene Schlesinger]

Augustine of Hippo

[Michael]

it's "ah-GUS-tin" not "AW-gus-teen"

[Dan]

Augustine, but ya know, we do not say Con-stan-tin, but Con-stan-teen

[Coyle]

Michael- if you're going to make that distinction, you might as well go full on-Puritan and just call him "Austin" :)

And the quote is totally Augustine at his most insightful, except for maybe the passage where he talk about how awesome some people are for being able to break wind and make it sound like singing (book XIV, COG) :)

[Bruce S.]

Mae West.

[dsanger]

Augustine of Hippo

[Richard]

George Steinbrenner.

[Ian Clary]

Do you say Constant-een or Constant-in?

[Zrim]

(St. Ah-GUST-in was the Bishop from Hippo who opposed Pelagius.

St. AW-gus-teen is the oldest city in America located in NE Florida.)

[Luke Elliot]

Wow, this is the first "Who Said That?" ever that I actually know the answer to. Augustine.

[Keith]

St. Augustine

[KBennett77]

Augustine

[reg]

If Bob Dylan pronounced "Augusteen" in his song "I dreamed I saw St. Augustine" that is good enough for me!

[Scott Roper]

Augustine.