Quotes About Myth

What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.

The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women less than equal with men and effectively keeping them 'in their place' and under control.

There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.

People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.

It was man who first made men believe in gods.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.

Computers rely on the one and the zero to represent all things. This distinction between something and nothing—this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing—is quite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths.

When later generations come to read about our history they will think they are reading a romance, and not believe a word of it.