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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.
You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?
There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas
It is INCONSISTENT to have Jesus pay a price for healing and for us to believe it is not Gods intention to heal.
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.
Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.
Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy
The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.
A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Christ demands first place. There's no room on the throne of your heart for two gods.
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.
Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
When I was a kid, Disney was one of my gods. I just loved movies like 'Snow White' and 'Pinocchio.'
But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.
If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.
We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.
The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
