Moliere Quotes
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
Moliere
Quotes to Explore
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Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
Homer
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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
Thomas Carlyle
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Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
Norm MacDonald
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For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
Gautama Buddha
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You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it more than it will bear. But as to self — that's different. Your mechanism may be bent, Your carbureter gone to grass, Your engine just a rusty mass. Your wheels may wobble and your cogs Be handed over to the dogs, And on you skip, and skid, and slide, Without a thought of things inside. What fools indeed we mortals are To lavish care upon a Car, With ne'er a bit of time to see About our own machinery!
John Kendrick Bangs
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If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.
Bette Lord
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Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
Menander
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I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals.
Thierry Mugler
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I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back. "Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. "And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. "What thoughtwent flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you?" But Five made answer solemnly, "I heard them fire a gun, "No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done."
R. C. Lehmann
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You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required – and content that He should indeed require no more of you – than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.
John Ruskin
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Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Socrates
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Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
Ali Smith
