Quotes About Gods

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

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.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

The gods hate unjust men.

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

After they had lost the war with Sparta the Athenians looked for someone to blame. They blamed the old teacher, Socrates. Being a rather groovy guy, he was always hanging around with young people, telling them not to believe in the old gods.

The Egyptians treated her like a pharaoh even though she was from a Greek family and a woman. She worshipped the gods of Egypt.