What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends? — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other… — Roald Amundsen Copy Share Image
Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore,… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Mortals are known by their actions; this is the way it has to be. They should show goodness, and not be deformed… — Guru Angad Copy Share Image
Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,… — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
“These pleasures last but until tomorrow, And they wear out the vital powers of life. How fleeting is all life on earth!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky And flinging the cloud and the towers by, Is a place of central… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider… — Cecil O. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then… — Rumi Copy Share Image
[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“You should know by now that love is never a weakness, Ares. Love is the mortal world’s greatest strength.” — Gina Ardito Copy Share Image
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men… — Homer Copy Share Image
The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is… — Frederic Harrison Copy Share Image
The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart. — Menander Copy Share Image
It hurts! It throbs with pain, the like of which I never felt the half! Mortal flesh would scream again . .… — Alan Grant Copy Share Image
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure. — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by… — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better. — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for… — Homer Copy Share Image
Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image