There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If I were to believe in the stories of the of the gods, then the gods do not need mortals to defend… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men!… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
The worst possible thing for any of us - no matter what our temptations, no matter what our mortal inclinations may be… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other… — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers. — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen. — Thierry Mugler Copy Share Image
Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through… — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being… — Apollonius of Tyana Copy Share Image
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson to you—do not envy the gods; pity us, for we are fixed in our divine function, while you… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room. — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I… — Euripides Copy Share Image
