I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
~By Lucan ~
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
~By Xenophanes ~
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
The gods behold all righteous actions.
~By Ovid ~
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
~By Whitley Strieber ~
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
~By Stevie Wonder ~
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
~By Herodotus ~
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
~By Bill Cosby ~
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
~By William Faulkner ~
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
~By Virgil ~
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
~By Rick Springfield ~
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
~By Plotinus ~
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
~By Aristophanes ~
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Fear created the first gods in the world.
~By Caecilius Statius ~
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
~By Henry Rollins ~
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
~By Ludwig Borne ~
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.
~By Germanicus ~
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
~By Michael Schudson ~
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places.
~By Lactantius ~
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
~By Lactantius ~
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The gods too are fond of a joke.
~By Aristotle ~
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
Those whom the gods love grow young.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Gods always love the people who make em.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~By Charles A. Beard ~
Leave the rest to the gods.
~By Horace ~
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
~By Robert Collier ~
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.
~By Ken Hensley ~
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
~By Richard Stallman ~
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
~By Epicurus ~
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
~By Empedocles ~
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
~By Diogenes ~
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
~By Steve Perry ~
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
~By Aeschylus ~
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
~By John Knox ~
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
~By Henry Timrod ~
He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.
~By Maxwell Anderson ~
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
~By Democritus ~
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
~By Ovid ~
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
~By John Stuart Blackie ~
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
~By Ernest Shackleton ~
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
~By Herodotus ~
Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.
~By Mose Allison ~
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
~By Socrates ~
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
~By Lactantius ~
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
~By Sam Mendes ~
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending.
~By Michael O'Donoghue ~
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
~By Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
~By David Antin ~
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.
~By Tom Glazer ~
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
~By Diogenes ~
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
~By Mika Waltari ~
The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
~By Lactantius ~
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
~By Virgil ~
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
~By Demosthenes ~
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
~By Confucius ~
We are making gods out of global celebrities.
~By Elizabeth Joan Smith ~
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
~By Plato ~
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