The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
When men make gods, there is no God!
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Everybody has a different definition of God. When people say, 'Do you believe?' I think they mean the Christian God. There are a lot of gods, so I think they cancel each other out.
If I were to believe in the stories of the of the gods, then the gods do not need mortals to defend them, do they?
Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.
One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.
I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion.
Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.
I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.
When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.
A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.