Mortals

Famous quotes containing the word mortals:

    Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)