A Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy
Russian - Writer
September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

Terry Pratchett

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

John Boyd Orr

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

Twyla Tharp

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Langston Hughes

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

George Roche III

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

Euripides

I wish I'd made 'Warrior,' and I wish I'd made 'Drive.'

Joe Carnahan

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

Bernard Levin

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

Charles A. Beard

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Irving Layton

Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.

Leslie Nielsen

Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto.

Swami Vivekananda

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

Niall Ferguson

Livin' la Vida Loca' is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music what Jennifer Lopez put out. It's not Latin music. What Enrique Iglesias, it's not Latin music, no? It's Latin artists. There's a Latin artist doing it you could say.

Marc Anthony

Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.

Mort Sahl

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