Mortals Quotes
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
Tell me, ye wingèd winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more?
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place.
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.
