“This will end the mythology of the dumb little Dutch boy with his stupid finger in the dike to save his country.”
Louis van Gesteren
“True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“It's part of the mythology surrounding the music business that spending huge amounts of marketing monies will ensure commercial success. This simply isn't so. If the music isn't compelling from the audience's perspective, no amount of spending will make it a hit.”
Al Teller
“The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology”
Mark Twain
“A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion”
Joseph Campbell
“Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”
Germaine Greer
“Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later”
Ambrose Bierce