Quotation Explorer - 'Gods'

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead. - C. JoyBell C.
You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you. - Lisa See
Your soul is a paradise. Where gods fell in love with the demons. Where darkness and light fought, for each other's place creating an unending chaos. You are the beginning of everything, that my mind failed to incarnate. - Akshay Vasu
May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure. - Harley King
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones. - Ruth Hurmence Green
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. - Stephen Roberts
The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. - Maxine Hong Kingston
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life. - Diogenes Laërtius
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . . - James D. Watson
She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless - Isha Karki
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde
In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes. - Amit Kalantri
Men always makes gods in their own image. - Xenophanes
Forget Gods, Religion, Caste, Sex, Species, Everything like every single thing - Sense it, Feel it and just be Human ! - Alamvusha
And Englishmen like posing as gods. - E.M. Forster
From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails - Steve Aylett
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. - Cato the Elder
He whom the gods love dies young. - Menander
Valkyrie, if there was ever a cradle to be robbed ... Gods, just look at him." ...... "Face it, Nat, this is one tiger who will never be jumping through your flaming hoop-- - Kresley Cole
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. - Lao Tzu
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. - Homer
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. - Euripides
Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me? - Jeff Melvoin
I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I'm an atheist.[Letter to Max Otto] - John Dewey
Asking me why don't I think Gods exist, is one thing. But asking me why don't I "Believe" Jesus is real, is you pushing your luck. - Andrea L'Artiste
Have you ever wondered why there are so many Gods and so many religions? It is because in the Land of the Gods, there is not a single hand to guide the Gods on a proper path. - Lionel Suggs
Even gods are following trends. They are afraid to be forgotten by their creators - Bangambiki Habyarimana
All men have need of the gods. - Homer
Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence. - Fakeer Ishavardas
It was once stated that God didn't play with dice, but then I discovered that most of the Gods did play with dice. However, they didn't see Destiny playing chess the entire time behind them. They never stood a chance, seeing that Destiny was on both sides of the board. - Lionel Suggs
...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight. - Tamora Pierce
Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life. - Protagoras
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us. - William Shakespeare
In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don’t believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don’t know the ultimate reality. - Debasish Mridha
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear. - Titus Lucretius Carus
Think back to the oldest era your mind can fathom, back beyond everything we can remember, when gods were still men who had not yet lived the deeds that would deify them. - Angela B. Chrysler
An intelligent man [doesn’t] know everything, he simply [knows] how to look everything up quickly and efficiently." - , Songs of the Dancing Gods - Jack Chalker
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. - Homer
So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Gods have become like us, ergo, we have become like gods. And to you, my unknown planetary readers, we will come to you, to make your life as divinely rational and exact as ours. - Yavgeny Zamyatin -We
, But the streets need cleaning, brother," Gromph said. "That is why the gods gave us magic, brother," Jarlaxle replied in the same smug tone. "To perform the mundane tasks of life. - R.A. Salvatore
TELL HER I AM POISONED... AND BY THE POWERS OF GODS I WILL BE GIVEN WHAT IS MINE... HER LOVE, HER BODY, HER SPIRIT, MY WHOLE WORLD - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. - Jean Rostand
It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light. - Mary Stewart
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. - Greg Bear
The gods have become our diseases. - C.G. Jung
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. - Horace
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man. - Horace
Not even the gods fight against necessity. - Simonides
The gods help them that help themselves. - Aesop
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. - Themistocles
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. - Seneca
Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them. - Emil A. Zafirov
When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish. - Ali ibn Abi Talib
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. - Epictetus
I really feel that people who have problem with Lesbians‬, Gays‬ and Transgenders‬, should be blessed with any one of them Only to realize that they are human beings too..Let them live peacefully for gods sake! - honeya
...atheism is not a conscious act of turning away from all gods. It is simply the final destination for those who think. ...you will be pleased to discover that the sky does not fall down on your head. ... if you still want to pray, you can (the success rate of your prayers is unlikely to change). - Guy P. Harrison
I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god - T.S. Eliot
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. - Albert Einstein
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. - Alan W. Watts
Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will - Belcampo
My friends are my enimies, my magi, my gods, my life... - Mykyta Isagulov
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. - Homer
This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn) - Mercedes Lackey
It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist. - Peter Atkins
Ni dieu ni maître!(Neither God nor master)[Feminist and labour slogan translated to 'No gods, no masters'] - Louis-Auguste Blanqui
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. - Terry Pratchett
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- - Langston Hughes
science is one , gods are manyscience allows change and accept new tested things but religion notscience laws are same all over earth but religions have different - er.teji
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. - Aristotle
What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death. - Frida Kahlo
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods. - Arthur Conan Doyle
The worshiper is the father of the gods. - H. L. Mencken
"If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato."
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly. - Homer
What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food. - François Jacob
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them. - Marty Rubin
The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond. - Emma Goldman
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands. - The Book of the Dead
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards. - Sir Terry Pratchett
I’ve long believed that the gods give us the music we’re supposed to hear at the times we’re supposed to hear it, because all music, even lyrical and regardless of language performed in, is in and of itself an inherently magical language that can, at proper times, speak to the soul. - Ruadhán J. McElroy
Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods. - Dan Simmons
Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods. - Peter A. Levine
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. - Abraham H. Maslow
What you seek you shall never find. For when the Gods made man, They kept immortality to themselves.Fill your belly.Day and night make merry.Let Days be full of joy.Love the child who holds your hand.Let your wife delight in your embrace.For these alone are the concerns of man. - The Epic of Gilgamesh
Life is your own movie. Not Gods. - Max Basstanie
Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? - Hermann Hesse
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. - Friedrich von Schiller
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. - Terry Pratchett
In my errant life I roamedto learn the secrets of women and men,of gods and dreams.I lived in wealth and poverty, in fame and calamity.I saw every country of our world,I lived a thousand lives.Many lives I spent, other lives I squandered,for in my life I never traveled, all I did was wander. - Roman Payne
i DO NOT WHY BUT i KEEP THINKING OF YOU, WHAT DID YOU EVER DO TO ME?I have tried na nikashindwa kukudelete from my system, IMEKATAA.i KNOW YOU HAVE TRIED TOO, IT LEAVES ME WONDERING WHAT IS THESE.It can only be explained by the gods. - Hanimoz Obey
We freed ourselves from gods and kings, now we have to free ourselves from ourselves. - Marty Rubin
Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will. - Fakeer Ishavardas
When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence. - Abhijit Naskar
We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death. - T.S. Eliot
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. - Hippocrates
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. - Homer
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. - Norman Mailer
Gods tender mercies are over all His creatures. - Psalm 145 9
Like all fancies, fancied gods too do not last. All a 'One' is - this the Ultimate Reality does. Get 'It'. Before you breathe your last. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds. - Michel de Montaigne
"I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details - Albert Einstein
Whom the gods love dies young. - Menander
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you'll understand why I dismiss yours.
Friends, are you a man according to Gods definition? Have you ever placed yourself under God’s microscopic eyes? Have you examined yourself according to his standards of judgment? Does he call you a man - Sunday Adelaja
The only thing sillier than believing in gods is arguing against their existence. - Marty Rubin
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. - Friedrich von Schiller
I am charting a course that will become a seed which may fall to the ground and die. But out of it shall arise many seeds and trees that shall become a plantation of light, which would usher in a new dawn of Gods righteousness to the church, Nigeria, and to Africa. - Sunday Adelaja
Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check. - Crystal Evans
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins
Church was never meant to be a place for gods to gather, but for devils wanting to shed their horns for halos. - Richelle E. Goodrich
[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned. - Peter Atkins
The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods. - Edward O. Wilson
The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction. - Sunday Adelaja
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. - Euripides
It is time at last for all the gods to be silent. - Marty Rubin
We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes. - George R.R. Martin
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. - Socrates
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. (Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens) - Friedrich von Schiller
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. - William Shakespeare
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us. - William Shakespeare
A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task. - Robert Louis Stevenson
We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they’ll love us back even half way. - Jennifer Elisabeth
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. - Robert Collier
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting. - Aristotle
Everybody dies. Including your messiahs. And gods. - Fakeer Ishavardas
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. - Lao Tzu
Were Gods love is present there is always hope. - Evangelist Jordan Wells
Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!! - Hiro Mashima
Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition. - David W. Earle
The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. - Homer
Malick to Jacin: "There is no trade anymore, you're not nothing, you didn't kill Caidi, you're going to be the most beautiful-dangerous Incendiary the gods have ever seen, and I fucking love you. Deal with it. - Carole Cummings
Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. - Kate Atkinson
Your smile is a gift of the gods. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life policies. Charlatan's with "godproof" armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods... - Kevin Hearne
We all humans are seed and gods are trees..and every seed have capacity to be tree - Arya vidhan
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies. - Homer
It's compassion that makes gods of us. - Dorothy Gilman
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another. - Epicurus
Her touch is like doing simple mathWhen she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothesThere is a red ink, like a sparkling red wine, adding colorsDividing body, remembering gods, without multiplying - Santosh Kalwar
The things you have are a shared effort, Gods blessings and human strength. Give thanks for the blessings in all situations. - Unarine Ramaru
I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. - Anne Rice
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. - Ambrose Bierce
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. - Emmett F. Fields
I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods. - Salman Rushdie
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods. - Gautama Buddha
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry. - Lord Byron
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. - Neil Gaiman
Experience the gift of life as its gods most precious gift of all with time as it passes in everywake of life there is experience to be gained and shared dvk - d vinod kumar
May the gods ignore you. - Lynda Williams
I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. - William Shakespeare
Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness. - William Shakespeare
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter.
Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.
Gods not looking for the next great Preacher or worship leader he is looking for a BROKEN PERSON WHO WILL BE FOUND IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER!!!!! - Joe Joe Dawson
Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize. - George Roche
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens. - Michel de Montaigne
The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction. The earth is man’s domain. Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here. - Sunday Adelaja
As private parts to the gods are we! They play with us for their sport. (Lord Melchett, Blackadder.) - Richard Curtis & Ben Elton
He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment. - Iris Murdoch
A culture finds the gods it needs. - Crossley-Holland David
The man who practices the prophet's art is a fool; for if he happens to give an adverse answer, he makes himself disliked by those for whom he takes the omens; while if he pities and deceives those who are consulting him, he wrongs the gods.
It is not possible to conceive gods inhabiting a land which is made hideous by the smoke and din of mill chimneys and factories and whose roadways are traversed by rushing engines dragging numerous cars crowded with men mostly who know not what they are after. - Mahatma Gandhi
What we now call "morality" was evolved as nearly all social and physical human attributes were to aid us in survival and, ultimately, reproduction. This morality requires only that we be guided by our developed conscience (or "moral sense") and not a God or gods. - David G. McAfee
Impassionate gods have never seen the red that is the Tatsuta River. /ちはやぶる 神代も聞かず 竜田川 からくれなゐに 水くくるとは - Ariwara no Narihira
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them. - Plutarch
God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods... - Socrates
I think we have underestimated their Gods; they have made millions stupid, and we are even not able to get one out of that stupidity. - M.F. Moonzajer
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. - Cyril Connolly
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. - Homer
For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity. - Raphael Zernoff
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority. - Emil Cioran
It is not a god that makes us more human, it is we human that make Gods. - M.F. Moonzajer
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. - P.D. James
Lovers have no primary needs; they are close to the gods. - Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!This was the most unkindest cut of all - William Shakespeare
You have dreamed too well, O wise archdreamer, for you have drawn dream's gods away from the world of all men's vision to that which is wholly yours,...
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. - Euripides
The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people. - Sunday Adelaja
For this is Wisdom; to love, to liveTo take what fate, or the Gods may give.To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flowTo have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go! - Laurence Hope
We are all the gods and devils, hiding under the human skin. - Akshay Vasu
Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. - Michel de Montaigne
ICHOR, n. A fluid that serves the gods and goddesses in place of blood. Fair Venus, speared by Diomed, Restrained the raging chief and said: "Behold, rash mortal, whom you've bled -- Your soul's stained white with ichorshed!" Mary Doke - Ambrose Bierce
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with. - William Shakespeare
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time. - Publilius Syrus
Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards. If they fall short of the ethical conditions we place upon ourselves, what use are they to us - except to rationalize our own failures? - Stifyn Emrys
While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine. - Friedrich Schiller
A brief note on the legend of Pandora's Box: Ever wondered why bundled in with all the torrents, and suffering of man kind the Gods put hope down there at the bottom, answer because in certain circumstances hope can be the worst torment of them all. - Tom Holt
Gods do have their divisions thanks to man. Jesus Christ is the Christian God, Allah the Muslim and so on. As a convent student, I thought God was English till the Sanskrit mantras became somewhat comprehensible. - Andy Paula
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. - Agnes Repplier
gray hair is gods graffiti - Bill Cosby
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