Top 1200 Roman Gods Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.

I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with the aid of Roman gold coins which were accepted and admired everywhere.

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them.

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.

But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds

In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Listen . Keep silent . You are not gods mouthpiece. Try to be an ear.

The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.

You are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly.

Evangelicals have to face it (like Roman Catholics of 16th century had to): Increasingly, our version of Good News is neither news nor good.

You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish adherence to Greek and Roman ideals, from which our artists cannot get away.

You look at John Cena - whether you love him or you hate him, he always gets a reaction. Roman Reigns has that same aura, that same ability.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.

'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.

Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.

Dad was a keen Roman Catholic, but I left the church when I was 17, not because I'd stopped believing - it was more doctrinal stuff, like that there was no biblical mention of purgatory. I went back when I was 28, just before I gave up drink.