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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. -- Ovid
I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us. -- Imogen Cunningham
I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket. -- Laura Dern
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody. -- Roberto Benigni
Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. -- Ovid
Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception. -- Martin Laird
The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time. -- Mark Goddard
The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero. -- Nostradamus
Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun. -- Seth Shostak
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. -- Ambrose Bierce
Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone. -- Norm MacDonald
When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years. -- William Hooper
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. -- Lactantius
Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more. -- Martin Rees
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. -- Thomas Jefferson
We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum. -- Cyrano de Bergerac
When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, we propound nothing new or different from what you believe regarding those whom you call the sons of Jupiter. -- Justin Martyr
For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane. -- Neal Stephenson
Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter. -- Buzz Aldrin
I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations. Referring to his pioneering telescope observations. -- Galileo Galilei
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse. -- Johannes Kepler
The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases. -- Seth Shostak
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. -- Fred Thompson
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor. -- Moliere
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad. -- Sophocles
Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things. -- Ovid
You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart. -- Gnaeus Naevius
If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years. -- Virgil
A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success. -- Rahul Gandhi
In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Honey, have you seen your sister?â? Sheâ??s on Jupiter, Mom. -- Diane Duane
I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for. -- Randy Savage
If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty. -- Ovid
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. -- Ovid
If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans? -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours. -- Alan Stern
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter. -- Henry David Thoreau
Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance." -- Gan De
In Valentine's Day or in any other day, the brightest star is not Venus or Jupiter but the very love in people's heart! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides. -- Diogenes Laertius
I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't. -- Raymond Smullyan
Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs. -- Plutarch
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Donald Trump's ego is like a comet the size of Jupiter just traveling through the solar system, and we all have to be affected by its gravitational pull. -- David Brooks
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman. -- George Washington
I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating. -- Jennifer Niven
I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any god. -- Edgar Degas
The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter. -- Lucan
I first reported to our Marlins spring training complex in Jupiter as well as the other draft picks to receive physicals and to sign contracts. From there I flew to Jamestown, NY to play for the Jamestown Jammers. -- Graham Taylor
Very good, Jason Grace," Notus said. "You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy. -- Rick Riordan
My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me. -- Patrick Monahan
Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east...[Observation in 4th century B.C.] -- Gan De
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. -- Edward Gibbon
[Letter to John Adams]The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter (Works, Vol. iv, p. 365). -- Thomas Jefferson
Percy?" Annabeth gripped his arm. "Oh, bad," he muttered. "Bad. Bad." He looked across the table at Frank and Hazel. "You guys remember Polybotes?" "The giant who invaded Camp Jupiter," Hazel said. "The anti-Poseidon you whacked in the head with a Terminus statue. Yes, I think I remember -- Rick Riordan
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island. -- Lactantius
Mars still remains the astrobiology community's number one choice for 'nearest rock with life,' but there are many researchers who argue that the moons of Jupiter are better bets. In particular, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are all thought to hide vast oceans of liquid water beneath their icy, outer skins. -- Seth Shostak
In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet. -- Les Dawson
Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869. -- Ricky Gervais
My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar. -- Steve Valentine
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing. -- N. T. Wright

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