Quotes About Janus

We can't afford to let the Illuminati have another victory, Janus.

A reckoning formally appointed and now paid to the limit. A tribute to Janus, God of Gates, to prevent that other, deferred payment to Charon.

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

the reader may see the real origin of Vulcan's Hammer, which is just another name for the club of Janus or Chaos, "The god of Confusion;" and to this, as breaking the earth in pieces, there is a covert allusion in Jer. i. 23, where Babylon, as identified with its primeval god, is thus apostrophised: "How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!

Hermes rolled his eyes. Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked- You have to worry about double-parking? Will you let me tell the story? Sorry.

When peace returned, the Janus was closed; this happened only ten times in more than a thousand years.

To Ovid (F, 1, 149 ff.), surprised that time does not recommence in spring, Janus replies that 'the winter solstice is the first day of the new sun and the last of the old' (ibid., 163).

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...

The Janus ought to put you on the payroll to scoop up a few of our artworks that fell into the wrong hands over the years. - Jonah

Darby, sir, but Janus they call me," the seaman said, "on account of a surgeon we shipped in the Sophie , a learned bloke, saying I saw both ways like some old Roman cut-up by that name.

how the word janitor came from Janus, the god of entrances and exits,

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true