- We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and bandied
- Which way please them.
JOHN WEBSTER, The Duchess of Malfi
O! I am Fortune's fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
Behold what is in the heavens and the earth! But revelations and warnings avail not folk who will not believe.
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherous by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
WILL ROGERS, The Autobiography of Will Rogers
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish -- if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
You can only predict things after they have happened.
EUGENE IONESCO, Rhinoceros
- The oracles are dumb,
- No voice or hideous hum
- Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
- Apollo from his shrine
- Can no more divine,
- With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.
- No nightly trance or breathèd spell,
- Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
BRAM STOKER, "The Gipsy Prophecy"
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
Astrology is a disease, not a science.
MAIMONIDES, attributed, A Book of Jewish Concepts
Without astrology man treads, as it were, in the dim twilight of ignorance.
LUKE DENNIS BROUGHTON, The Elements of Astrology
Though Astrology is like a deep ocean ... anybody can get knowledge through going deeply in water and get some drops of nectar of this divine knowledge.
ONKARLAL SHARMA PRMAD, Astrology and Its Utility
Astrology is like a map. Like a roadmap, astrology is meant to be a useful tool to help guide you to wherever you want to go.
PILA OF HAWAII, The Secrets & Mysteries of Hawaii
Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none.
PHILIP C. PLAIT, Bad Astronomy
Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing.
BARBARA GOLDSMITH, Astrology Made Easy
Seeing our confusion, ancient sages like Parashara, Jaimini and Bhrigu bestowed the great intuitive science of astrology on humankind. In India astrology is called "the eye of the Veda" because with its help we're no longer blind to the forces of karma that drive our lives and determine the circumstances we live in, as well as shaping our attitudes and relationships. The sages themselves don't need astrology because they can see directly into the heart of reality. But astrology is like a prosthetic limb for the rest of us who're confined to far more limited states of awareness. It allows us to foresee the challenges and opportunities ahead as we pass (or fail) the curricula of the cosmic university.
LINDA JOHNSEN, A Thousand Suns
Astrology is like gravity. You don't have to believe in it for it to be working in your life.
If astrology is like sex, astrologers are like prostitutes.
CATHERINE HOLMES & JUDITH WARING, Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium and Beyond
Astrology is like religion itself, in a very equivocal state. There is a well-grounded reason for belief that it is a truth; but it is impossible for any man to read the details with accuracy. The quackery of astrology lies, like Pharisaical religion, in over pretensions.
JAMES ELISHAMA SMITH, The Coming Man
Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.
ELIZABETH CLARE PROPHET, The Astrology of the Four Horsemen
Disbelievers and professional astrologers alike understandably denigrate sun sign astrology, piteously trivialized in horoscope columns that appear on the newspaper comic pages for a good reason. Not that they find it false, but professional astrologers tend to view sun sign astrology as the cheeseburger on the astrology menu, an item whose mass appeal is only matched by its lack of imagination. Without it, however, the study of astrology is like climbing a ladder that is missing its first rung.
STEVE M. WEISS, Signs of Success
Astrology is like any other superstition: It has no power unless people allow it to direct their lives.
BILL MYERS, "The Haunting"
You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.
QUENTIN CRISP, Theater Voices: Conversations on the Stage
There is something out there. Astrology is like a game of chess with an invisible partner. We set out the board and the rules, make a move, and then find that the pieces are moving themselves, as if by an invisible hand.
NOEL TYL, Astrology Looks at History
Astrology is like a weather report; it tells you what conditions you're likely to face in the future. If the weatherman says it's probably going to rain, you bring an umbrella. If you follow that advice, you won't get wet.
LEE GOLDBERG, Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu
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