Gods Quotes

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. (Seneca)
The gods help them that help themselves. View quote
Aesop
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. View quote
Themistocles
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. View quote
Jean Rostand
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. View quote
Ovid
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. View quote
Albert Einstein
Whom the gods love dies young. View quote
Menander
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. View quote
Richard Dawkins
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow. (Jack Kerouac)
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Gods always love the people who make em. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. View quote
Joseph Campbell
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. View quote
Baron d'Holbach
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. View quote
Euripides
America is Gods Crucible, the greatest Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming ... God is making the American. View quote
Israel Zangwill
All the gods are dead except the god of war. View quote
Eldridge Cleaver
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. (Norman Mailer)
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. View quote
Henry Miller
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them. View quote
Neil Gaiman