Definition of gods

"gods" in the noun sense

1. God, Supreme Being

the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe the object of worship in monotheistic religions

2. deity, divinity, god, immortal

any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

3. god

a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people

"he was a god among men"

4. idol, graven image, god

a material effigy that is worshipped

"thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"

"money was his god"

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Quotations for gods

The gods my protectors. [ Horace ]

Commit the rest to the gods. [ Horace ]

Speak of the gods as they are. [ Bias ]

O Thou above all gods supreme. [ Klopstock ]

Gods's mill grinds slow, but sure. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Land of lost gods and godlike men. [ Byron of_ _Greece ]

When half-gods go, the gods arrive. [ Emerson ]

The gods love those of ordered soul. [ Sophocles ]

Who can foretell for what high cause
This darling of the gods was born? [ Andrew Marvell ]

We must bear what the gods lay on us.

The gods play games with men as balls. [ Plautus ]

A daughter of the gods, divinely tall.
And most divinely fair. [ Tennyson ]

The matchless Ganymede, divinely fair. [ Homer ]

Even the gods above are subject to law. [ Ovid ]

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [ Ovid ]

I would the gods had made thee poetical. [ William Shakespeare ]

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [ Ovid ]

Fear in the world first created the gods. [ Statius ]

Not even the gods contend with necessity. [ Simonides ]

Clemency alone mates us equal to the gods. [ Claudianus ]

Ye realms, yet unrevealed to human sight,
Ye gods who rule the regions of the night.
Ye gliding ghosts permit me to relate
The mystic wonders of your silent state. [ Dryden ]

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows;
They are polluted offerings, more abhorred
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men would be angels; angels would be gods. [ Pope ]

The world is the mighty temple of the gods. [ Seneca ]

Goodness and being in the gods are one;
He who imputes ill to them makes them none. [ Euripides ]

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport. [ William Shakespeare ]

Time-honored golf! I heard it whispered once
That he who could not play was held a dunce
On old Olympus, when it teemed with gods. [ G. F. Carnegie ]

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [ Cicero ]

Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. [ Dryden ]

Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. [ Homer ]

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. [ William Shakespeare ]

Thanks to the gods; my boy has done his duty. [ Addison ]

And sing to those that hold the vital shears;
And turn the adamantine spindle round,
On which the fate of gods and men is wound. [ Milton ]

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,
The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. [ Homer ]

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales.
And the good suffers while the bad prevails. [ Homer ]

It is firmness that makes the gods on our side. [ Voltaire ]

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]

Whom the gods love die young, was said of yore. [ Byron ]

To the just Gods, not us, pertaineth vengeance. [ Thomson ]

And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act. IV. Sc. 3 ]

Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. [ Homer ]

Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods. [ Heraclitus ]

Dreams, which, beneath the hov'ring shades of night.
Sport with the ever-restless minds of men.
Descend not from the gods. Each busy brain
Creates its own. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. [ Socrates ]

Good poets are the inspired interpreters of the gods. [ Plato ]

But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it! [ Milton ]

Even the gods are unable to contend against necessity. [ Simonides ]

Let us be silent, so we may hear the whisper of the gods. [ Emerson ]

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods. [ Beaconsfield ]

The gods approve the depth, and not the tumult of the soul. [ Wordsworth ]

He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels. [ Claudian ]

Banqueting with gods on the ambrosia and nectar of the mind. [ W. R. Alger ]

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men. [ Horace ]

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [ Horace ]

We cannot recompense the gods; beautiful it is to be like them. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

To them (the gods) ascribe every undertaking, to them the issue. [ Horace ]

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [ Horace ]

Reverence, first of all, the immortal gods, as prescribed by law. [ Pythagoras ]

Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. [ Waller ]

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men! [ Ovid ]

A brave spirit struggling with adversity is a spectacle for the gods. [ Seneca ]

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. [ Virgil ]

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. [ Bartol ]

The gods know all countries; by navigation we equal the gods in knowledge. [ Pharaoh Neclues ]

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. [ Greek Anthology ]

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. [ Lucan ]

It is cowardly to quit the post the gods elect for us before they permit us. [ Pythagoras ]

He may rate himself a happy man who lives remote from the gods of this world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The gods have attached almost as many misfortunes to liberty as to servitude. [ Montesquieu ]

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods. [ Thoreau ]

Alas! it is not permitted to any one to feel confident when the gods are adverse. [ Virgil ]

O you much partial gods! why gave ye men affections, and not power to govern them? [ Ludovic Barry ]

The gods from heaven survey the fatal strife, and mourn the miseries of human life. [ Dryden ]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures. [ Cicero ]

Oh! let me live forever on those lips! The nectar of the gods to these is tasteless. [ Dryden ]

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods. [ Aristippus ]

Revenge, the attribute of gods! they stamped it with their great image on our natures. [ Otway ]

A foolish superstition introduces the influences of the gods even in the smallest matters. [ Livy ]

Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day. [ Seneca ]

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. [ Montaigne ]

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [ Ovid ]

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of the gods. [ Cicero ]

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgment sound. [ Plautus ]

That a country may be truly free, the people should be all philosophers, and the rulers all gods. [ Napoleon I ]

The punishment of perjury at the hands of the gods is perdition; at the hands of man, is disgrace. [ One of the laws of the Twelve Tables ]

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. [ James A. Garfield ]

Now is the time to show by deeds that the dignity of a man does not yield to the sublimity of the gods. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest. [ Malesherbes ]

It is a law of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us. [ Corneille ]

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself. [ Juvenal ]

If there were a people of gods, they would govern themselves democratically: so perfect a government is not suitable to men. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Forbear to inquire, thou mayst not know, Leuconoë, for you may not know what the gods have appointed either for you or for me. [ Horace ]

Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and happiness after death. [ Plato ]

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods. [ Seneca ]

There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure. [ Addison ]

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. [ Cato ]

Heroes are men who set out to be demi-gods in their own eyes, and who end by being so at certain moments by dint of despising and combating all humanity. [ George Sand ]

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently, however they have writ the style of gods, and make a pish at chance and sufferance. [ William Shakespeare ]

The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Death alone of the gods loves not gifts, nor do you need to offer incense or libations; he cares not for altar nor hymn; the goddess of Persuasion alone of the gods has no power over him. [ Horace ]

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are continguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity. [ Plutarch ]

The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused. [ Lucretius ]

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]

Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the best flower of civilisation, and the best result which life has to offer us--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.

Founders and senators of states and cities, lawgivers, extirpers of tyrants, fathers of the people, and other eminent persons in civil government, were honored but with titles of worthies or demigods; whereas such as were inventors and authors of new arts, endowments, and commodities towards man's life, were ever consecrated among the gods themselves. [ Bacon ]

In Goethe's drama, Iphigenia defends her chastity, ascribing her firmness to the gods. No god hath said this: thine own heart hath spoken, answered Thoas, the king. They only speak to us through our heart, she replies. Have not I the right to hear them too? he rejoins. Thy storm of passion drowns the gentle whisper, adds the maiden, and closes all debate. [ Bartol ]

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism, but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends. [ Disraeli ]

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle afirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. [ From the Italian ]

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Words within the letters of gods

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Words containing the sequence gods

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Words with gods in them (1 word)

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Word Growth involving gods

Shorter words in gods

go god

Longer words containing gods

demigods

godsend godsends

godsent

godson godsons

godspeed

nongods

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