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

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Hesiod

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Camille Paglia

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
Bodhidharma

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
James Beattie

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci

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

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Xenophanes

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Mike Tyson

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
Morris Raphael Cohen

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
Hesiod

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
Bodhidharma

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
Edward Young

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph Addison

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Aeschylus