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Deities Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
- A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith…
- MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts…
- NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they…
- REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . .…
- OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
- Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
- NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they…
- CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its…
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- Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man… — Francis Bacon
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant
- Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
- My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in… — John Henrik Clarke
- We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right… — John Henrik Clarke
- Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your… — John Henrik Clarke
- Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation… — Leonard Cohen
- The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must… — Louis Agassiz
- Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have… — Baron de Montesquieu
- Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess. — Pliny the Elder