Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature. — George Ade 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
What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting… — Pindar Copy Share Image
“Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt; But mortals, as you may have noticed, take what they can… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably,… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it… — Aeschylus 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
The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The other video game adaptation I did was Mortal Kombat, and I did that because I loved playing the games in the… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased… — R. C. Lehmann Copy Share Image
There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any,… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear. God is a human being without… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat. — Mark Dacascos Copy Share Image
Mortals must do what they are here to do creatively or they will become cranky. — Jill Badonsky Copy Share Image
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
