To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind. — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible. — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted. — Bette Midler 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
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
Tell me, ye wingèd winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more? — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls. — Euripides Copy Share Image
There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have… — Homer Copy Share Image
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I met Anne in the autumn... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among… — Benedict Joseph Labre Copy Share Image
Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
An Animated Cartoon Theology: 1. People are animals. 2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain. 3. Life is antagonistic… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Let us be mindful of the foundational precepts our Heavenly Father has given to His children that will establish the basis of… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Fiddler briefly wondered about those three dragons - where they had gone, what tasks awaited them - then he shrugged. Their appearance,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image