Top 147 Slain Quotes & Sayings

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain.

She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would.

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.

There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

It is not right to glory in the slain

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey. And when she espied that Sir Lanceor was slain, then she made sorrow out of measure, and said, O Balin ! two bodies hast thou slain and one heart, and two hearts in one body, and two souls thou hast lost.

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain.

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.

Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.

It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human invention that he is declared to have been slain at this time. These attempts to connect the crucifixion with the Passover afford the strongest proof that it is a myth.

Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I,if there be such an ay, Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay: If he be slain say ay,or if not,no: Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe.

With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone? Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.