Mortals Quotes - Page 22

• If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

  George Ade

  Work, Mean, Destiny

  George Ade (1904). “True bills”

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• Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people.

  Pythagoras

  Grief, Fate, Destiny

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• Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

  Pindar

  Kings, Law

  "Gorgias" by Plato, 484b,

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• Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Predicaments, Creatures

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

  Alec Guinness

  Done, Wickedness, Littles

  Alec Guinness (1998). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

  Andrew Marvell

  Two, Paradise, Share

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 8

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• How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!

  Thomas Chatterton

  Clay, Praise, Salvation

  Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.5

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• Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Men, Sides, Reason

  Thomas Chatterton (1842). “The Poetical Works with Notices of His Life, History of the Rowley Controversy, a Selection of His Letters and Notes Critical and Explanatory: I-II”, p.440

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• I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

  William James

  Men, Intellectual, Doubt

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.116, Xist Publishing

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• The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

  Joseph Addison

  Death, Fear Of Death, Prove

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.458

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• The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

  Martin Luther

  Would Be, Sin, Righteous

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.54, Fortress Press

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• Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.

  Plutarch

  Men, Thinking, Reflection

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

  Plutarch

  Veils

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.72

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• One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.

  J. William Fulbright

  Trying, Barbarians, Damage

  "The arrogance of power". Book by J. William Fulbright, 1966.

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• Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore; Mortals, give thanks and sing, And triumph evermore: Lift up your heart, lift up your voice; Rejoice, again, I say rejoice.

  Charles Wesley

  Kings, Heart, Voice

  1746 'Rejoice, the Lord is King'. In Hymns for our Lord's Resurrection.

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• There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.

  Empedocles

  Blessed, Long, Utterance

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• When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar.

  Harry Chapin

  Sweet, Song, Jesus

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Shells, Creation, Let Me

  "Elizabeth Costello". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2003.

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• The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

  Alexander Haig

  Truth, Loss, Reality

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• It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

  Roger Zelazny

  Games, Giving, Mythical Creatures

  Roger Zelazny (1983). “Unicorn Variations”, Pocket Books

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• I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.

  Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

  Running, Real, Risk

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• Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Doctrine, Establishment Clause, Firsts

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• As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Long, Mountain, Poor

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• The slippers of the mortal Earth, now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, it is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Past, Moon, Earth

  "Song of the Bumblebee". 2008.

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• Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Causes, Christianity, Christendom

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 135, 1895.

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