For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes
FairYearsPretendLittleMustGods
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
OnlyGodsPoets
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Diogenes
KnowGodsOughtWhether
O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.
Apollonius of Tyana
MeWantNothingLittleGodsGrant
In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.
Philip Yancey
EvilExistenceProofGodsSomeWays
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang
FoodGodsLapOurCooksOur Lives
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich Schiller
StruggleStupidityGodsVain
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
MenAngelsWouldGods
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
MenUniverseMustWholeGodsBoth
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston
PeopleAlwaysBehaveWhoLikeGods
Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
Oscar Isaac
NatureAnythingUsGodsMadeSome
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
PeopleHumanTurnHuman BeingsGods
Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.
Anita Baker
TimeYouNothingGiftsGiveGods
The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
Tom Robbins
MeReadingChosenGodsEntertain
Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.
Dick Cavett
GiftMomentsGodsReportComicFew
I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
MePartnerRoofDelightGodsNone
As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
Protagoras
WayKnowingExistLikeGodsEither
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
Howard Zinn
PeopleVoteUsWouldGodsGiven
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
StupidityAgainstGodsVainVery
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
Aleister Crowley
MeBookNeverMankindMessageGods
I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
Ishmael Beah
GodBelieveTraditionI BelieveGods
Gods always love the people who make em.
LovePeopleAlwaysMakeWhoGods
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
WishAnswerUsPrayersGodsOur
I have painted gods, and goddesses too, and my favourite is Ganesha and Radha Krishna.
Hansika Motwani
GodsGoddessesTooFavouriteKrishna
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