A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature. — George Ade Copy Share Image
What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus… — Horace Copy Share Image
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.” — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
“Of course, most mortals can't see magic clearly, so I'm not sure what they thought they saw as we passed overhead. No… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Don’t you think it’s best that you stay away from mortals? You know they break so easily these days.” — Kimberly Spencer Copy Share Image
If readers like The Thorn and the Blossom, which I would call literary fantasy, I think they would like books such as… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to… — Moby Copy Share Image
One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired.… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of… — Gertrud von Le Fort Copy Share Image
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
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