He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
~By Jean Racine ~
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
Leave the rest to the gods.
~By Horace ~
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
~By Clive Barker ~
We are making gods out of global celebrities.
~By Elizabeth Joan Smith ~
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
~By Lucan ~
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 ~
Whom the gods love dies young.
~By Menander ~
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
~By Ovid ~
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
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 ~
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
~By Anita Brookner ~
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
~By Virgil ~
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
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 ~
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
~By Dan Brown ~
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
~By Epicurus ~
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 ~
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
~By Aeschylus ~
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
~By George Santayana ~
The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
~By Frank Shorter ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
~By Aristotle ~
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
~By Meg Greenfield ~
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
~By Plotinus ~
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
~By Diogenes ~
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
~By Phyllis Gotlieb ~
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
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 ~
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
~By Plato ~
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
~By Aeschylus ~
Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
~By Aristophanes ~
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
~By Alexander Pope ~
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
~By Leon Battista Alberti ~
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
~By Themistocles ~
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 ~
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
~By Lin Yutang ~
Gods always love the people who make em.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
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 ~
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
~By Herodotus ~
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
~By Sam Mendes ~
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
~By Aeschylus ~
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
~By Sophocles ~
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
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 ~
Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.
~By Thayer David ~
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
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 ~
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
~By David Antin ~
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
The gods behold all righteous actions.
~By Ovid ~
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
~By Edmund Halley ~
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
~By Aristotle ~
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 ~
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
~By Lao Tzu ~
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?
~By Lactantius ~
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
~By Hesiod ~
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."
~By Terry Pratchett ~
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 ~
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 ~
I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
Fear created the first gods in the world.
~By Caecilius Statius ~
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 ~
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 ~
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
~By Hippocrates ~
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 ~
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