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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Socrates

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whis is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God's second mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Vincent van Gogh

If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

Chuck Palahniuk

The gods help them that help themselves.

Aesop

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Sophocles

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

William Shakespeare

Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.

William Shakespeare

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.

Horace Mann

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

Bill Cosby

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

Sri Chinmoy

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly

An honest god's the noblest work of man.

Samuel Butler

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

Agnes Repplier

God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world.

Robert Browning

The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one and the same-one in seeing, one in knowing, and one in loving.

Meister Eckhart

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

C.S. Lewis

I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters.

Titus Livy

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Novalis

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Simon Raven

If this garage is as vulnerable as you say it is, for God's sake close the garage.

David J. Dean

There is a place in God's sun for the youth 'farthest down' who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

Mary Mcleod Bethune

God's project of creation can be carried out through secondary causes in the natural course of events.

Fiorenzo Facchini

And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

A. E. Housman

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

God's already blessed us because he spared our lives so it can't get no worse than it already was. And I already see better things happening already.

Dominick Ballard

Had it not been for God's glory and this man's goodness, ... I would not be here.

Brian Clark

He's a tough kid. He's a competitor. You know, the baseball gods just weren't with us tonight.

Mike Conrad

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Bruce Barton

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

Ludwig Borne

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

Corrie Ten Boom

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Norman O. Brown

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

Oswald Chambers

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Terry Pratchett

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

George had a passion for God's calling for him, George McCormick was the man God called upon to blend medicine and law.

John Hammons

Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods.

Lucretius

[He] reassured me that if it was our time to go, then God's will would be fulfilled.

Randal Mccloy Jr

Duty is ours, results are God's.

John Quincy Adams

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

Howard Zinn

We have to leave here now. We console each other because it is all God's will.

Juanita Artiaga

I wasn't above having thoughts of God's wrath.

Walter Kirn

It's food for the gods. For us, it's different food from everywhere in the world.

Victor Velasco

Children aren't dogs; adults aren't gods.

Haitian Proverb

With God's permission, we will participate in Euro 2008. We have full confidence in our trainer.

Haluk Ulusoy

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

Barbara Boxer

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell Owen

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Michael J. Fox

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

H. L. Mencken

It is God's will. Since ancient times it has been this way. It is our fate.

Ali Hussein

Everything is God's will, ... But there's a certain amount of common sense that God gives to individuals to prepare for certain things.

Charles Steele

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Richard Dawkins

What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?

Josiah Strong

Peace is not God's gift to His creatures. It is our gift - to each other.

Elie Wiesel

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

For me, it's not time off because I served God with this job. So when you deprive me of serving God, you deprive me of God?s reward.

Abu Jandal

These were bronze age people and they had a pantheon of gods that they thought controlled their world.

Michael Sheridan

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

Homer

On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

Polybius

Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.

Francis Quarles

God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It .

Jim Wallis

We are making gods out of global celebrities.

Joan Smith

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.

Stella Terrill Mann

At the end of the day the footy gods were on our side and that wobbly ball went through.

Neale Daniher

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good.

John Milton

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Sappho

Of course that's what everyone was hoping for, that the boys would come home alive. That is our will, but that's not the way it works. It's God's will.

Dennis Frazier

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Trading Life's Good for God's Best.

Luis Palau

Think how poor Mother Eve was brought to being as God's afterthought.

Anna Wickham

All of us have a responsibility to advance God's will through government.

Ted Haggard

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

I'm sure God's got a better building in store for us.

Joe Boylan

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

Joan Rivers

We've been experiencing God's grace — that's how I would describe it.

Susan Uhrik

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

Corrie Ten Boom

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

Richard M. Devos

I'm a Christian. I believe in God's word. I know the power of God's word.

Billy Blanks

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

Marie Henri Beyle

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

St. Francis Of Assisi

If God's ready for us, He'll take us. If not, we'll be here for another while.

Mary Kelley

They are angels doing God's work.

Dan Harding

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

Hans Christian Andersen

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

John Flavel

We're beckoning the gods with this one. Bring it on!

Rhonda Hewitt

The golf gods don't like impatience.

Jay Reynolds

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Euripides

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.

Mary H. Waldrip

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

Neil Gaiman

They will know the truth that only God's grace got them in.

John Fischer

Even an atheist may be ready to concede that a good wine is the drink of gods.

Paul Carvel

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

Simonides

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

Maxwell L. Anderson

I just put it in God's hands.

Lorraine Hayes

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

Della Reese

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

Richard Stallman

Kinda makes you wonder whose side God's on, doesn't it?

Mike Scheuer

Life and death are God's decisions. If it is made through a court verdict, that equals murder.

Agus Saputra

They've got oil pockets in them. There's no way on God's earth you can get that out of the skull.

Dorothy Kilishek

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

Charles Simeon

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

He loved his kids. He's in God's hands right now.

Pat Miles

Conscience is God's presence in man.

Emanuel Swedenborg

There is strife between God's ways and human ways: damned by you, we are absolved by God.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

God's children deserving to sleep safe.

Sinead O'connor

Death must be an Evil - and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

Sappho

We may have our family feuds, but at least this is our 6.6 acres of God's green earth. Let us decide, not someone else.

Jon Preiksat

The victorious cause pleased the Gods, but the conquered one pleased Cato.

Lucan

God's timing in moving me down here was perfect.

Joseph Allen

Oh, for God's sake . . . get a life, will you?

William Shatner

The people had a lot of faith that what would happen would happen for a reason. They would say, 'It's in God's hands'.

Laura Defrank

It's theology of the hammer. We feel that if you can demonstrate God's love by swinging a hammer, we'd love to have you.

Nathan Thompson

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

Abraham Lincoln

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

Thomas Stonewall Jackson

Once you've been baptized, you've been gifted for sainthood, ... You are God's chosen one.

Greg Myers

God's been very good to us. We're very fortunate to have our family.

Lupe Silva

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

Israel Zangwill

It's God's doing. There has got to be a reason for this to continue on.

Aldreana Mcknight

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

Chubby Checker

All men have need of the gods.

Homer

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

Warren E. Burger

Gods and Monsters.

James Whale

We definitely have been kept open because it's God's ministry. It's where God wants me.

Loretta Inman

He put his life in God's hands, and now he's safe.

Tony Rodriguez

I give it to God. I don't think about it one way or another. It's in God's hands.

Lisa Miller

What men call accident is God's own part.

Philip James Bailey

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Richard Cecil

We've had the opportunity to experience God's beautiful creation ? the sunrise, sunset, mountains, canyons and the beauty of things we didn't see before.

Bev Rasmussen

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

Stanislaw J. Lec

The sky is God's gift to you . . . what you do with it is your gift to him.

Bill Purdin

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure.

Gerald Gould

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless.

Maxwell L. Anderson

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Ambrose Bierce

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

Joan of Arc

Be content and resigned to God's will.

Thomas Stonewall Jackson

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Lewis Cass

What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Lord Byron

We tell her it's in God's hands.

Michael Wenger

It's not just grandma's house we have to worry about. Now it's God's house, too.

Heather Wilhelm

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Themistocles

Villa park is the home of gods.

William Pitt The Elder

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

Walter Lang

Men create the gods in their own image.

Xenophanes

The noble man is only God's image.

Ludwig Tieck

We're all God's children ... none of us come from any place but God.

James Nash

If it is God's will, we will continue to come down here until the job is done.

John Cavanaugh

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Comte de Buffon

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don't stand for the white man's side, I stand for God's side.

Bob Marley

When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

Bill Mccartney

The baseball gods owed us one, but I think we earned it, too.

Dave Brundage

God's creatures, great and small... eat them one, eat them all.

John A. Simone, Sr.

There's a few hockey Gods up there taking care us.

Tom Vannelli

Every Wednesday we have a Bible study (Kid's Club and God's Squad) that attracts 40-50 kids.

Steve Lannom

The coins are obviously currency used for trade, but they have images of gods on them.

Jessica Aiken

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

Dorothy Gilman

But her little heart has been through too much. It's all in God's hands now.

Ryan Lopez

It's just awesome. Enjoying God's creation. It's just gorgeous.

Kelly Klein

From your mouth to God's ears.

Beatrice Arthur

They are sprung from the same DNA , for God's sake. They are always onstage. They are always performing.

Jack Valenti

These decisions have been taken to restore the dignity and beauty of marriage and family and for the respect of God's commandments.

Father Gelase Mugerowimana

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

This was huge. Pops helped build this place, and I felt the basketball gods were on our side.

Omar Wilkes

For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking.

Daryl F. Zanuck

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

Fran Lebowitz

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Arnold Toynbee

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

Jerry Seinfeld

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

Corrie Ten Boom

To hunt it's God's privilege. Every time I hunt deer or bear, I thank God for bringing me that animal.

Ralph Mazzuca

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.

Thomas E. Dewey

We don't want to see a game of this importance decided like this, but sometimes the baseball gods are unkind to you.

Richie Zisk

I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six years old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

Victoria Jackson

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Red Skelton

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

Thomas Howard

Satan's work, not God's.

Hilton Sutton

Their rhetoric is that perhaps God's blessing has been removed and we can't expect to be protected.

Nancy Ammerman

The gods were very much like circus performers. They could do extraordinary things.

Tony Hernandez

To take a deep breath, to re-examine who they are, to reconsider God's calling -- unique calling -- to a congregation to serve in a community.

Robert Patterson

Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.

James Bailey

It's in God's hands now. All we can do is pray.

Kellen Easley

This is God's world this is not the media's world.

Terrell Owens

We really have no idea what her prognosis is. Every day is another gift. Some of it depends on what's God's plan for them.

Roxanne Steele

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Thomas S. Monson