PROPHECY AND PROPHETS

Related Subjects: Astrology, Bible, Future, Oracle

1. A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.—Bible, Matthew 13:57
   

2. It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.—BURKE, Prior's Life of Burke
   

3. The best of prophets of the future is the past.—BYRON
   

4. Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.—CICERO, De Divinatione
   

5. Ancestral voices prophesying war.—COLERIDGE, Kubla Khan
   

6. Thine was the prophet's vision, thine
   The exaltation, the divine
   Insanity of noble minds,
   That never falters nor abates,
   But labors and endures and waits,
   Till all that it foresees it finds,
   Or what it can not find creates!—LONGFELLOW, Keramos
   

7. Prophets were twice stoned—first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard.—CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Where the Blue Begins
   

8. Don't prophesy unless you know.—Proverb
   

9. O my prophetic soul!
   My uncle!—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

10. If you can look into the seeds of time,
    And say which grain will grow and which will not.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth