Appetite Quote by Henry David Thoreau

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.

— Pythagoras

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

O the wind is a faun in the spring time When the ways are green for the tread of the May! List! hark his…

— Clinton Scollard

“There was a nice brown egg, lightly boiled, for each of them, and then sardines on toast, and then buttered toast, and then toast…

— C.S. Lewis

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We need to get some fauns up in this piece.”

— Lev Grossman

“Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.”

— Epicurus

“ Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown…

— J. M. Robertson

Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.]

— Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon

Fear first made gods in the world.

— Statius

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

— Epicurus