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  • Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

    Science   Night   Light  
  • Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

    Eye   Atheism   Mouths  
  • ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

    Dog   Gold   Jupiter  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.241, 谷月社
  • The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.

    Peace   War   Air  
  • Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new...um...what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?" "Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club. "Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found." "Hooray!

    War   Army   Broken  
  • Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

    Beauty   Daughter   Eye  
    Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.291, New Directions Publishing
  • I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.

    Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)

  • It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

  • The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.

  • Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

    Horse   Moving   Thinking  
  • An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

    Mad   Firsts   Ancient  
  • He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

    Rebel   Cojones   Zeus  
    Jasper Fforde (2006). “The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime”, p.130, Penguin
  • If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

    Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
  • Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

    Pride   Proud   Tongue  
  • He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

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  • To business."Tux Dude extended his hand. "I am Prometheus." I was too surprised to shake."The fire-stealer guy?The chained-to-the-rock-with-the-vultures guy?" Prometheus winced. He touched the scratches on his face."Please, don't mention the vultures. But yes, I stole fire from the gods and gave it to your ancestors. In return, the ever merciful Zeus had me chained to a rock and tortured for all eternity.

    Fire   Rocks   Hands  
  • Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.

  • Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion. Religions run in families. If we'd been brought up in ancient Greece we would all be worshiping Zeus and Apollo. If we had been born Vikings we would be worshiping Wotan and Thor. How does this come about ? Through childhood indoctrination.

  • As for my brothers,' Zeus said, 'we are thankful -' he cleared his throat, like the words were hard to get out - 'erm, thankful for the aid of Hades.' The Lord of the Dead nodded. He had a smug look on his face, but I figure he'd earned the right. He patted his son Nico on the shoulders, and Nico looked happier than I'd ever seen him.

    Brother   Son   Looks  
  • No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think good marriages come from? They don't spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education...Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?

    Marriage   Jobs   Spring  
  • I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

  • Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

    Kings   Honor   Proud  
  • Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.

    Believe   Odin   Jupiter  
    "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist". blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.
  • Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

    Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood's End”, p.14, Hachette UK
  • The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

    Air   Heaven   Earth  
    Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: A New Translation with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.68
  • Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

  • I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?

    Winter   Thinking   Earth  
  • There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus

  • Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

    Hate   Too Much   Action  
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