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"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them." »Homer, The Odyssey
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"Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them." »Homer
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"To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets." »Oscar Wilde
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"My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia." »Dame Edna Everage
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"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul." »Ingrid Bergman
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"In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights." »Elizabeth Bowen
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"It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." »Hubert Humphrey
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"It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." »Hubert H. Humphrey
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"All men have need of the gods." »Homer
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"It's useful that there should be gods, so let's believe there are." »Ovid
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"the gods help them that help themselves." »Aesop
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"He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at." »Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion." »Themistocles
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"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"the gods too are fond of a joke." »Aristotle
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"When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in." »Aeschylus
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"Not even the gods fight against necessity." »Simonides
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"Slow but sure moves the might of the gods." »Euripides
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"the worshiper is the father of the gods." »H. L. Mencken
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"Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks." »Lin Yutang
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"the gods too are fond of a joke" »Aristotle
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"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." »Euripides
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"Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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