A Quote by Plautus

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

Plautus

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Gods Make Men Sport Ways Wondrous

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Plautus
Roman - Playwright
254 BC - 184 BC

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]

Horace

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

Horace

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

Ovid

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

Plautus

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

Ovid

They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte. Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]

Torquato Tasso

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

Terry Pratchett

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

Tacitus

Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

Simone de Beauvoir

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.

Roland Emmerich

There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans believe that the gods are born like themselves, and that the gods wear clothes and have bodies like humans and speak in the same way... but if cows and horses or lions had hands or could draw with the hands and manufacture the things humans can make, then horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, cows like cows, and they would make the gods' bodies resemble those which each kind of animal had itself.

Xenophanes

La di da di, we likes to party We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.

Slick Rick

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

Dennis Lehane

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death