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 ~
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
~By George Santayana ~
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
~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 ~
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
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 ~
We are making gods out of global celebrities.
~By Elizabeth Joan Smith ~
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
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 ~
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
~By Bill Gates ~
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 ~
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 ~
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
~By Empedocles ~
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 ~
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
~By Lucan ~
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 ~
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
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 ~
He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.
~By Maxwell Anderson ~
But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
~By Xenophanes ~
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
~By Edmund Halley ~
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 ~
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 ~
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
The gods behold all righteous actions.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
Those whom the gods love grow young.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
~By Aeschylus ~
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Men create the gods in their own image.
~By Xenophanes ~
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 ~
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
~By Alexander Pope ~
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
~By David Antin ~
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 ~
I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.
~By Garry Trudeau ~
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
~By Epicurus ~
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 ~
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 ~
Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.
~By Germanicus ~
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 ~
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 ~
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
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 ~
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 ~
Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
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 ~
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
~By Diogenes ~
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
~By William Shakespeare ~
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
~By Howard Zinn ~
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 ~
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
~By Aristotle ~
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 ~
People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
~By Tanith Lee ~
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
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 ~
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
~By Sam Mendes ~
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
~By Aristophanes ~
I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
~By Plato ~
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 ~
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Leave the rest to the gods.
~By Horace ~
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 ~
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
~By Herodotus ~
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 ~
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 ~
Where no gods are, spectres rule.
~By Novalis ~
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
~By Plato ~
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
~By Sophocles ~
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
~By Demosthenes ~
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
~By Aeschylus ~
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
When men make gods, there is no God!
~By Eugene O'Neill ~
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
~By Frank Shorter ~
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 ~
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
~By Herodotus ~
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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