But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
Herodotus

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
Xenophanes

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
Virgil

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
Morihei Ueshiba

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
Mika Waltari

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
Henry Timrod

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor Caldwell

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Henry David Thoreau

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
Whitley Strieber

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
William Shakespeare

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Stefan Zweig

Fear created the first gods in the world.
Caecilius Statius

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
Lactantius

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
Virgil

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
David Antin