Herodotus Quotes

The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Nemesis follows hubris.

Other men would … have to pay for that terrible arrogance and vainglory.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexander. But I don't believe I am the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.

God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.