Top 1200 Mere Mortals Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)

Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

Composing mortals with immortal fire.

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so mere. From then on the planet becomes a waiting room. The rest of your life devolves to no more than the time between highs.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Oh what fools we mortals are.

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

We are mortals, we will die one day.

The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is differentthe End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

I have not come to seek place, nor to interfere with the business and calling of those men who have borne the burden since the death of Joseph. I throw myself at your feet, and wish to be one of your number, and be a mere member of the Church, and my mere asking to be baptized is an end to all pretensions to authority.

Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.

Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

Stupid, fragile mortals.

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.