Top 1200 Roman Gods Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.

Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands.

It was man who first made men believe in gods.

Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance

For a "monotheistic" religion it should be sufficient with three gods.

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

Respect the gods and buddhas, but never rely on them.

We Ask the Gods for Answers and They Give Us Questions

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey.

This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.

God intends us to be like gods, he intends us to be like the Son of God. ... God has conceived in His heart of a plan to make a race of men that would live like gods on the Earth. He has conceived in His heart to have Sons that would live like His Son, the Lord Jesus lived... That we were to be on earth the extension and manifestation of God's life in heaven.

Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Men create the gods after their own images.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

Gods always love the people who make em.

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

Men always makes gods in their own image.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

Everything is spectacle. Everything is entertainment, whether it's shame, invasion of privacy, abuse, no matter what it is it's become almost a sporting event. It's like the new Roman Coliseum in a way.

I write in Times New Roman, 12 point, and arrange the margins so that the screen looks like a page from a book. This spurs me on to make the writing as perfect as I can make it.

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

Whoever truly worships the gods loves their priests.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

Gods always love the people who make 'em.

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?