Famous quotes containing the words olympian gods, olympian and/or gods:
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
And brought Olympian wisdom down
To court and mar, to gown and town,
Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
The open secret of to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Fate is never too generous—even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)