A Quote by Terry Pratchett

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

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Terry Pratchett
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April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

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 first call promising.

Cyril Connolly

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

Euripides

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Twyla Tharp

Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

C. S. Lewis

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

George Roche III

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

Leslie Nielsen

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

Niall Ferguson

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

Ted Hughes

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