#mortals

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #live #mortals #nor #perish

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad. ↗

— Sophocles

#ancient #bad #before #call #cannot

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. ↗

— Sophocles

#gain #life #long #money #mortals

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence. ↗

— Matthew Green

#common sense #experience #join #mortals #providence

When the warden appeared outside their cell, he ogled Regin's bared midriff. Gross. Whenever men leered at her, Regin tended to leer back. She canted her head on the floor, turning it one way, then the other. "I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#immortals-after-dark #regin-the-radiant #valkyrie #dreams

And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#lothaire #dreams

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. ↗

— Heraclitus

#cattle #eternal #fame #goal #like

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#home #like #more #mortals #novelist

I will tell the stork-man. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#immortals #numair #immortality

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#decided #domestic #fellow #how #know