Vitruvius Quotes

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Banish afar the foul worship of idols. On their alters let the blood of animals smoke no more, nor the soothsayer look for omens in warm entrails, nor the meaningless augur attend to the song of birds. Let all the images of the gods be smashed to the ground.

I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

Nancy is superstitious.

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

I'm not one of those superstitious people.

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers.

I'm extremely superstitious.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Witchcraft and priestcraft, were introduced into this world together, … and has gone on, hand in hand together

Science has changed the face of this earth: it has harnessed the forces of Nature -- forces whose secret laws it had first to discover -- it has created practically a new world within the memory of men living….Science -- the scientists -- doesn't pretend to have grasped in its fingers the Eternal Truth …Science doesn't demand that one believe or be damned. Science reasons. Science investigates. Science tests itself….Science works -- builds -- quietly prevails -- promises little and performs much.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. You know how in New York there's a lot of scaffolding? I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck.

I do not follow superstitions on court.

I'm unbelievably superstitious.

I am not a superstitious person.

On occasion, we at 'MythBusters' come across stories we want to test that require using a pig carcass to simulate human physiology.

Well, as a kid I did all the Bloody Mary games and using a mirror to scare yourself.

I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.