Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The rest of the songs on the album [Mortal City ] have spare arrangements on them. Steve [Miller], really loved that. He'd… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here. — Jeff Cox Copy Share Image
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
Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance,… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. — Xenophanes 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
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
