Foolish Mortals Quotes

#1. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

Herman Melville

#2. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Edith Schaeffer

#3. If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

Michael Merzenich

#4. In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

Sarah MacLean

#5. But really what it all came down to was that they wanted someone to listen. It was that simple; that was, at heart, what every single person walking across this green earth wanted.

Meg Mitchell Moore

#6. Although I don't think love is quantitatively measured - in other words, I don't believe that you "don't know love until you have a child," that whole thing - I do believe it is qualitatively different.

Emily Susan Rapp

#7. When people get into their 30s plus "boyfriend" sounds weird ... if you really think about it. Instead, I think we should universally start using the term "manfriend" or "snookie bookie cuddles pie".

Michelle M. Pillow

#8. I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.

Lenny Abrahamson

#9. Where is the soul? ... I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#10. True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Yukio Mishima

#11. I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.

Chris Brown

#12. Better not to have anything. Not even love. If you got attached to something, it only got taken away. Child or adult. Toys or people. No difference

Barbara Elsborg

#13. Lord, what fools these mortals be! Wonder on till truth make all things plain A foolish heart, that I leave here behind I know a bank where the wild thyme blows If we shadows have offended She'd

Jean Hegland

#14. Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Dante Alighieri

#15. The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

Paul Thomas Anderson

#16. Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

Robert Rankin