“There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans believe that the gods are born like themselves, and that the gods wear clothes and have bodies like humans and speak in the same way... but if cows and horses or lions had hands or could draw with the hands and manufacture the things humans can make, then horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, cows like cows, and they would make the gods' bodies resemble those which each kind of animal had itself.” IfsMenWayBelieveHumansKindBodyHandsFormReligionSpeakBornAnimalBearsMoralityShapesClothesDrawsHorseLionsCowsSimilarity Author:Xenophanes
“If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.” IfsAtheismDrawsHorsePaintPositive AtheismLionsOxen Author:Xenophanes
“If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.” IfsWantHumorFunnyAnimalCreaturesHorseWingsAddLionsHawksMythical CreaturesPegasus Author:Demetri Martin
“Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!” StupidHorseIntelligentNobleSillyShouldersIgnorantTendenciesJudgementCarrieLionsPigsElephantsAntsDonkey Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.” AsksGrowsTreeHorseApplesLionsPreyApple Trees Book:The Portable William Blake Source: The Portable William Blake
“I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.” MenShouldChildrenLastsRememberHouseKingsCatHorseLaysBoatSatShoreLionsMidnightMillsNarniaNear DeathJackals Author:C. S. Lewis
“Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.” TwoAnimalHalfStudyCreaturesGoldHorseDollarsSurpriseFiftyLionsQuartersCentsEaglesCompoundsZoology Book:The Devil's Dictionary Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can” IfsKnowsWorldGivingMayTurnsPracticeLike YouBirdHorseContactLionsCompanionshipWhistling Author:Jean M. Auel
“If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.” IfsMenGivingArtBodyHandsEyeFormReligionBlackProduceHairRedHorseBluePaintLikesWorks Of ArtLionsBlue EyesRed HairOxen Author:Xenophanes
“Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.” IfsMenHandsBlackImagineAtheismFashionHumilityDrawsRedHorseBlueLionsBlue Eyed Author:Xenophanes
“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. “If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.” IfsMenLooksBodyHandsEyeAbleBlackHairShapesDrawsRedHorseBlueFlatsLionsBlue EyesRed HairOxen Author:Xenophanes