- Even so, oxen, lions and horses, if they had hands wherewith to grave
images, would fashion gods after their own shapes and give them bodies
like their own.
-- Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.... - There is one god, greatest among gods and men, neither in shape nor in
thought like unto mortals.
-- Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475 BCE) "Fragments" No. 23... - To want nothing is godlike; and the less we want the nearer we approach
the divine.
-- Xenophon (430-355 BCE) "Memorabilia" I,6,10... - Nothing good is engendered of the flesh.
-- Xystus I (Sixtus, 7th Bishop of Rome)(?
c.125 CE) "The Ring... - There are no illegitimate children--only illegitimate parents.
--Judge Leon R. Yankwich Zipkin v. Mozon (1928)... - Be not afraid of enemies; the worst they can do is to kill you.
Do not
be afraid of friends; the worst they can do is betray you.... - A statesman is an easy man,
He tells his lies by rote
A journalist makes up his lies
And takes you by the throa... - Many times man lives and dies
Between his two eternities.
-- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "Under Ben Bulben" (1936-1939)... - All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
-- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "Dramatis Personae" (Autobiog.
1936)...
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