- 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.
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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