Mortals Quotes

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

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.

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

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

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

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

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.