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Quotes About Myth

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
~ Oscar Wilde
What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?
~ Regis Philbin
I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.
~ Richard Condon
The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
~ Harvey Mackay
Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.
~ Israel Zangwill
I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.
~ James Lane Allen
The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.
~ Jane Grigson
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
~ Conor Oberst
You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.
~ Chris Matthews
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
~ Salman Rushdie
Your money myth affects your gain and luck.In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.
~ Janine di Giovanni
To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.
~ Antonin Scalia
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
~ Clarence Darrow
The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.
~ Steve Fowler
The pine is the mother of legends.
~ James Russell Lowell
The happy family is a myth for many.
~ Carolyn Spring
They're always wrong in the movies.
~ Benjamin Percy, Red Moon
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
~ Victor Borge
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
~ Alfred Rosenberg
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
~ Naomi Wolf