History Quote by Xenophon

The few men who have managed to reach heaven must be terribly spoiled by this time

— Edgar Watson Howe

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their…

— Edmund Spenser

“Perhaps men were not meant to live in such a place. If their own natures restrained them from approaching heaven too closely, then men…

— Ted Chiang

All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs…

— E. M. Forster

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

— Giacomo Leopardi

“Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in…

— Thomas Watson

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

— Matthew Arnold

“Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.”

— Anne Brontë

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted through with…

— Ellis Peters

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

— Dwight L. Moody

That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion…

— Samuel Willard