Mortals Quotes
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For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
Gautama Buddha -
I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.
Armand Borel
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But it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.
Homer -
I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.
Gertrude Bell -
They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.
Homer -
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.
Eric Temple Bell -
I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals.
Thierry Mugler -
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
Dante Alighieri
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Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
Menander -
They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.
Ray Bradbury -
Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.
Edward Joseph Young -
You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
Karen Russell -
It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.
Paul Horgan -
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
Moliere
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What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Stupid, fragile mortals.
Carrie Vaughn -
It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.
Jostein Gaarder -
The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.
Warder Clyde Allee -
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
Isaac Watts -
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
Homer