Mortals Quotes - Page 25

• It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

  Winston Churchill

  Hate, Years, Fearless

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
  Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
  Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
  The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Jesus, Flower, Passion

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, God Knows Best

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.627, Library of America

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• As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Clients, Common, Fees

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.52, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In spring more mortal singers than belong
  To any one place cover us with song.
  Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Spring, Robins

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise
  Of mortal men conceal'd their deities;
  One laid aside his thunder, one his rod

  Ovid

  Men, Deities, Thunder

  John Dryden, Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer, Geoffrey Chaucer (1771). “Dedication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond. The preface. Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond. Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight's tale, from Chaucer (bk. I-III) To my honoured kinsman John Dryden of Chesterton. Meleager and Atalanta, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. Baucis and Philemon, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pygmalion and the statute, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Cinyras and Myrrha, out of th”

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• No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wags, Tongue, Pens

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.17

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• ... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.

  George Santayana

  Soul, Faces, Immortality

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

  Herman Melville

  War, Men, Air

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.463

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• That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.473, Velvet Element Books

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• How cold the vacancy
  When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
  First sees reality. The mortal no
  Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reality, Vacancy, Gone

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• Let mortal man keep to his own
  Mortality, and not expect too much.

  Euripides

  Men, Too Much, Mortality

  Euripides “Alcestis, a story of love”, Lulu.com

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• The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

  Sophocles

  Change, Loss, Night

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• For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass
  Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist
  The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.

  Allen Tate

  Glasses, Church, Twists

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.

  Martin Buber

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

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• A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

  Jane Austen

  Marriage, Home, Men

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.383

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• And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

  Hesiod

  Men, Hair, Race

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• Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
  No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
  O may my heart in tune be found
  Like David's harp of solemn sound.

  Isaac Watts

  Sweet, Heart, Sound

  Isaac Watts (1821). “An arrangement of the Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.419

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• Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.

  Jane Rule

  Beautiful, Sex, Snow

  Jane Rule (1981). “Outlander”, Tallahassee, Fla. : Naiad Press

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• this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making,
  sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,
  this blessing love gives again into our arms.

  Galway Kinnell

  Children, Memories, Blessing

  "After Making LoveWe Hear Footsteps" l. 21 (1980)

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• If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and will stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Men, Law, Opposites

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• But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself.

  Stefan Zweig

  Truth, Heroic Deeds, Humanity

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• Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Loneliness, Excellence, Property

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• Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

  Richard Bach

  Education, What Matters, People

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• Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Class

  Don Feder (1996). “Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?”, p.12, Regnery Publishing

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