Thyrsus Dionysus Quotes

#1. I never imagined you'd be so difficult," he muttered.
"Maybe that's why you're supposed to meet me when I'm unconscious. So I don't burst your bubble right away.

Sarah Cross

#2. A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. Free thinker walks on shortcuts among wisdoms.

Toba Beta

#4. It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top.

Bode Miller

#5. Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

Tom Stoppard

#6. To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Aleister Crowley

#7. Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Carrie Fisher

#8. She immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village boys who had once been her friends.

Daphne Kalotay

#9. We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

Calamity Jane

#10. God's demand: 'be righteous'; God's diagnosis: 'no one is righteous'; God's deliverance: 'Jesus is our righteousness.

Tullian Tchividjian

#11. Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Dennis Prager

#12. Perhaps the single greatest thing I learned from reading the Book of Mormon is that the voice of the Spirit comes as a feeling rather than a sound. You will learn, as I have learned, to "listen" for that voice that is felt rather than heard.

Boyd K. Packer

#13. If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.

David Eddings

#14. O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helpless agony before the oppressor?
O Lord, come down from Olympus,
shake your golden thyrsus
and stifle the murderer's insolent fury.

Euripides

#15. WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

Barry Long