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Not vain the weakest, if their force unite. -- Homer
Down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms -- Homer
But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me. -- Homer
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
[Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.] -- Homer
Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever. -- Homer
Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw -- Homer
The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him -- Homer
All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one. -- Homer
For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces. -- Homer
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft. -- Homer
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other. -- Homer
One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way. -- Homer
Generations of men are like the leaves.
In winter, winds blow them down to earth,
but then, when spring season comes again,
the budding wood grows more. And so with men:
one generation grows, another dies away. -- Homer
And empty words are evil. -- Homer
It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes. -- Homer
And now to one side Gorgythion drooped his head and heavy helmet; He let it fall over like the bloom of a garden poppy, heavy with seed and the rains of spring. -- Homer
Death submits to no one. -- Homer
A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar. -- Homer
True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. -- Homer
Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers. -- Homer
Goddess, ... do not be angry with me about this. I am quite aware that my wife Penelope is nothing like so tall or so beautiful as yourself. She is only a woman, whereas you are an immortal. Nevertheless, I want to get home, and can think of nothing else. -- Homer
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. -- Homer
Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead. -Achilles -- Homer
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself - more birds than women flocking round his body! -- Homer
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. -- Homer
God help me, I'm just not that bright. -- Homer
A decent boldness ever meets with friends. -- Homer
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish. -- Homer
... There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible - magic to make the sanest man go mad. -- Homer
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. -- Homer
By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember -- Homer
Canada? Why would I want to leave America just to visit America, Jr.? -- Homer
I'm satisfied. It's straight, ... but it's just so hot, and I'm just so fraustrated. -- Homer
Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell! -- Homer
If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. -- Homer
There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands. -- Homer
Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman. -- Homer
Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off - all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms ... That's how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears. -- Homer
My son, Achilles is of nobler birth than you and he is also by far the stronger man. But you are older than he is. It is for you to give him sound advice, make suggestions and give him a lead which he will follow to his own advantage.' Nestor -- Homer
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife ... -- Homer
When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a
bottle. THEY'RE ON TV! -- Homer
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. -- Homer
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away. -- Homer
For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man! -- Homer
Like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. -- Homer
Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices -- Homer
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. -- Homer
In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane. -- Homer
Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep ... in a giant blender. -- Homer
My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me. -- Homer
And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house. -- Homer
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. -- Homer
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. -- Homer
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme. -- Homer
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. -- Homer
A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator. -- Homer
Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure ...
For already have I suffered full much,
and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.
Let this be added to the tale of those. -- Homer
If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also. -- Homer
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. -- Homer
Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme. -- Homer
Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better. -- Homer
Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one - so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim - the greater man. -- Homer
Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on -- Homer
Thou wilt lament
Hereafter, when the evil shall be done
And shall admit no cure. -- Homer
Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic. -- Homer
The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. -- Homer
Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins. -- Homer
Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them. -- Homer
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. -- Homer
Women are easy, state capitals are hard. -- Homer
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. -- Homer
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. -- Homer
I'm a people person ... who drinks. -- Homer
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. -- Homer
Internet! Is that thing still around? -- Homer
Ajax the great Himself a host. -- Homer
L. 151. Chthizos, yesterday. But either the word must have a more extended signification than is usually given to it, or Homer must here have fallen into an error; for two complete nights and one day, that on which Patroclus met his death, had intervened since the visit of Ajax and -- Homer
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. -- Homer
One man is a splendid fighter
a god has made him so
one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure. -- Homer
Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. -- Homer
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness - she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. -- Homer
Hyrtacides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: "O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar." [bk.12] -- Homer
Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one. -- Homer
On with you, horse-taming Trojans! Never give Greeks best in your will to fight! They are not made of stone or iron. Their flesh can't keep out penetrating spears when they are hit. -- Homer
Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature. -- Homer
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. -- Homer
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for. -- Homer
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. -- Homer
The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree. -- Homer
Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this. -- Homer
Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use. -- Homer
'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth. -- Homer
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. -- Homer
We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing. -- Homer
I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood. -- Homer
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. -- Homer
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much. -- Homer
You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. -- Homer
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly. -- Homer
I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits of the dead, brides and unwed youths, old men worn out by labour, and tender maidens with hearts still new to sorrow. -- Homer
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. -- Homer
My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life. -- Homer
All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them. -- Homer
One who contends with immortals lives a very short life. -- Homer
I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim. -- Homer
The best things beyond their measure cloy. -- Homer
The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. -- Homer
The strong must protect the sweet. -- Homer
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both. -- Homer
What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny. -- Homer
I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch. -- Homer
Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers. -- Homer
For love deceives the best of woman kind. -- Homer
Achilleus started awake, staring, and drove his hands together, and spoke, and his words were sorrowful: Oh, wonder! Even in the house of Hades there is left something, a soul and an image, but there is no real heart of life in it. -- Homer
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. -- Homer
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead. -- Homer
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays. -- Homer
All men have need of the gods. -- Homer
A man's life breath cannot come back again
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth. -- Homer
To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. -- Homer
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes. -- Homer
We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again! -- Homer
My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius -- Homer
Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. -- Homer
It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were too much for our belief. -- Homer
All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body. -- Homer
And woe succeeds woe. -- Homer
On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus. -- Homer
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat - coward! -- Homer
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. -- Homer
What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides? -- Homer
Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men - old leaves, cast on the ground by wind, young leaves the greening forest bears when spring comes in. So mortals pass; one generation flowers even as another dies away. -- Homer
What's out of sight, is out of mind -- Homer
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms. -- Homer
Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods. -- Homer
One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country. -- Homer
Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth. -- Homer
Achilles absent was Achilles still! -- Homer
For never, never, wicked man was wise. -- Homer
Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. -- Homer
First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind! -- Homer
Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish. -- Homer
You've injured me, Farshooter, most deadly of the gods;
And I'd punish you, if I had the power. -- Homer
It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day. -- Homer
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. -- Homer
write a history, we must know more than mere facts. Human nature, viewed under an introduction of extended experience, is the best help to the criticism of human history. -- Homer
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. -- Homer
She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise. -- Homer
I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music! -- Homer
... but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. -- Homer
Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out. -- Homer
Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide -- Homer
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end -- Homer
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead. -- Homer
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. -- Homer
Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs. -- Homer
Down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went
and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past
the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel
where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home -- Homer
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will. -- Homer
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain. -- Homer
The long historian of my country's woes. -- Homer
A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me. -- Homer
Long exercised in woes. -- Homer
It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing. -- Homer
The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek. -- Homer
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. -- Homer
Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal? -- Homer
Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways,
who was driven far journeys -- Homer
Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be. -- Homer
But sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away -- Homer
Goddess of song, teach me the story
of a hero. -- Homer
He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings. -- Homer
And what if one of the gods does wreck me out on the wine-dark sea? I have a heart that is inured to suffering and I shall steel it to endure that too. For in my day I have had many bitter and painful experiences in war and on the stormy seas. So let this new disaster come. It only makes one more. -- Homer
Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round. -- Homer
That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come ... -- Homer
It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced. -- Homer
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. -- Homer
Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
Smote the surrounding fields. -- Homer
You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup! -- Homer
O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes -- Homer
The sex is ever to a soldier kind. -- Homer
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. -- Homer
Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me. -- Homer
This year I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January. Then bang! That's when I'll cash in. -- Homer
To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat! -- Homer
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly. -- Homer
I'm not gay, but I'll learn ... -- Homer
I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are. -- Homer
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. -- Homer
For of all creatures that breathe and creep about on the earth, there is none so miserable as man. -- Homer
Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man. -- Homer
I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth! -- Homer
Each man delights in the work that suits him best. -- Homer
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. -- Homer
You, you insolent brazen bitch - you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father's face? -- Homer
It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most. -- Homer
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life. -- Homer
There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil. -- Homer
The hearts of the great can be changed. -- Homer
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. -- Homer
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth. -- Homer
rolling eye balls -- Homer
Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties. -- Homer
It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad. -- Homer
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor! -- Homer
What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you. -- Homer
Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact. -- Homer
If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things. -- Homer
Do not mourn the dead with the belly. -- Homer
Short is my date, but deathless my renown. -- Homer
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them. -- Homer
Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted. Consistency is no less pertinacious and exacting in its demands. -- Homer
You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring? -- Homer
Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.' -- Homer
I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl. -- Homer
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end
So voluble a weapon is the tongue;
Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail
For every man has equal strength to rail. -- Homer
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. -- Homer
The rose Dawn might have found them weeping still had not grey-eyed Athena slowed the night when night was most profound, and held the Dawn under the Ocean of the East. That glossy team, Firebright and Daybright, the Dawn's horses that draw her heavenward for men- Athena stayed their harnessing. -- Homer
Singing is the lowest form of communication. -- Homer
After the event, even a fool is wise. -- Homer
Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest. -- Homer
Restrain yourself ... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain. -- Homer
The heart in his rugged chest was pounding, torn -- Homer
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. -- Homer
Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood. -- Homer
Upon the earth appear'd, weeping, they bore Brave Hector out; and on the fun'ral pile Laying the glorious dead, applied the torch. -- Homer
A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! -- Homer
The life, which others pay, let us bestow,
And give to fame what we to nature owe. -- Homer
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. -- Homer
It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks! -- Homer
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. -- Homer
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. -- Homer
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable -- Homer
The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again. -- Homer
But death is a thing that comes to all alike. Not even the gods can fend it away from a man they love, when once the destructive doom of leveling death has fastened upon him. -- Homer
See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead! -- Homer
There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. -- Homer
A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly. -- Homer
But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well - for your own son's death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels - I've lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men - -- Homer
Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best. -- Homer
But his sister, Artemis of the wild, the lady of wild beasts,
scolded him bitterly and spoke a word of revilement:
'You run from him, striker from afar ... Fool, then why do you wear that bow, which is wind and nothing. -- Homer
She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills -- Homer
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother -- Homer
The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us. -- Homer
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. -- Homer
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus
pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. -- Homer
They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize. -- Homer
I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country. -- Homer
The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was! -- Homer
Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving. -- Homer
Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind. -- Homer
We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths. -- Homer
I don't know how much longer I can complain. -- Homer
Forget the brother and resume the man. -- Homer
Homer no function beer well without. -- Homer
When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces ... I just know they're about to jab me with something. -- Homer
Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. -- Homer
Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. -- Homer
But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame. -- Homer
Nobody gets into heaven without a glowstick. -- Homer
Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions ... -- Homer
I guess some people never change ... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back. -- Homer
The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it. -- Homer
It was the gray sea that bore you and the towering rocks, so sheer the heart in you is turned from us. -- Homer
I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. -- Homer
How vain, without the merit, is the name. -- Homer
For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung. -- Homer
Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager. -- Homer
Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow. -- Homer
No finer, greater gift in the world than that ... when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. -- Homer
Aries in his many fits knows no favorites. -- Homer
I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed. -- Homer
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. -- Homer
Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below. -- Homer
No season now for calm, familiar talk. -- Homer
And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel. -- Homer
Sing, goddess, of Achilles' ruinous anger
Which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans,
And cast the souls of many stalwart heroes
To Hades, and their bodies to the dogs
And birds of prey. -- Homer
My every impulse bends to what is right -- Homer
Rock stars, is there anything they don't know? -- Homer
Of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart. -- Homer
It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey. -- Homer
I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey. -- Homer
From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey. -- Homer
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death. -- Homer
Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak. -- Homer
Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement. -- Homer
Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden. -- Homer
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. -- Homer
It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise. -- Homer
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave. -- Homer
The lot of man-to suffer and die. -- Homer
A hopeless exile from his native home, From death alone exempt - but cease to mourn; Let all combine to achieve his wish'd return; Neptune atoned, his wrath shall now refrain, Or thwart the synod of the gods in vain. -- Homer
Money can be exchanged for goods and services! -- Homer
Boy, those Germans have a word for everything! -- Homer
Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket -- Homer
As the wind scatters leaves upon the earth, such is the race of men -- Homer
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. -- Homer
Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet. -- Homer
Perverse mankind! whose wills, created free, Charge all their woes on absolute degree; All to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall'd the crimes of fate. -- Homer
Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods. -- Homer
Better to flee from death than feel its grip. -- Homer
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. -- Homer
Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table. -- Homer
I war not with the dead. -- Homer
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. -- Homer
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns. -- Homer
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies. -- Homer
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate. -- Homer
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. -- Homer
And endless are the modes of speech, and far
Extends from side to side the field of words. -- Homer
The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight. -- Homer
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. -- Homer
This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed
ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing! -- Homer
Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream! -- Homer
I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world. -- Homer
Boy, everyone is stupid except me. -- Homer
I don't want to look like a weirdo. I'll just go with the muumuu. -- Homer
Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove. -- Homer
Do I know what rhetorical means? -- Homer
The man who acts the least, upbraids the most. -- Homer
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. -- Homer
Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family. -- Homer
Once you go Vatican, you never go back again. -- Homer
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend. -- Homer
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given ... -- Homer
Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. -- Homer
Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow -- Homer
No TV and no beer makes Homer something something. -- Homer
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. -- Homer
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days. -- Homer
The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth. -- Homer
Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite. -- Homer
Too many kings can ruin an army -- Homer
Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut? -- Homer
Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors? -- Homer
heights th' immortal Gods, Jove -- Homer
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. -- Homer
The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost. -- Homer
There will be killing till the score is paid. -- Homer
Sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing. -- Homer
Beauty! Terrible Beauty!
A deathless Goddess
so she strikes our eyes! -- Homer
If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair. -- Homer
Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies. -- Homer
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. -- Homer
Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge. -- Homer
As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades. -- Homer
soon as rosy-fingered morning came forth from the first grey dawn, -- Homer
I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly
exaggerated. -- Homer
Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength. -- Homer
There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life. -- Homer
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. -- Homer
But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of winter, and then no other mortal could in debate contend with Odysseus. Nor did we care any longer how he looked. -- Homer
I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men -- Homer
And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds. -- Homer
There is a strength in the even of very sorry men -- Homer
A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. -- Homer
Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything. -- Homer
If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer. -- Homer
How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men. -- Homer
His descent was like nightfall. -- Homer
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. -- Homer
I've had my share of pain the waves and wars.
Add this to the total. Bring the trial on. -- Homer
By turns the nine delight to sing -- Homer
Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone. -- Homer
First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women. -- Homer
. . . But if he is truly
Odysseus, home at last, make no mistake:
we two will know each other, even better -
we two have secret signs,
known to us both but hidden from the world. -- Homer
We are perpetually labouring to destroy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for us. My opinion is, that what is best for us is our admiration of good. -- Homer
A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. -- Homer
A little child born yesterday
A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed. -- Homer
The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring. -- Homer
Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. -- Homer
But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend. -- Homer
Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria. -- Homer
I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God. -- Homer
I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is
and it's me. -- Homer
If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing. -- Homer
And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker. -- Homer
Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it. -- Homer
But you can't stop at one, you wanna drink another woman! -- Homer
The Simpsons are going to Delaware! -- Homer
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born. -- Homer
Far from the hateful cause of all his woes. Neleus his treasures one long year detains, As long he groan'd in Philacus' chains: Meantime, what anguish and what rage combined For lovely Pero rack'd his labouring mind! -- Homer
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made -- Homer
And would'st thou evil for his good repay? -- Homer
The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain. -- Homer
Now son, you don't want to drink beer. That's for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs. -- Homer
The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers. -- Homer
When I was seventeen
I drank some very good beer
I drank some very good beer I purchased
With a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was seventeen -- Homer
From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover. -- Homer
Ah, good ol' trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die. -- Homer
And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs -- Homer
No trust is to be placed in women. -- Homer
Life is largely a matter of expectation. -- Homer
Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power -- Homer
The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay! -- Homer
It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success. -- Homer
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. -- Homer
It is not right to exult over slain men. -- Homer
Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away. -- Homer
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. -- Homer
Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things. -- Homer
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. -- Homer
You don't win friends with salad. -- Homer
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer
I hate To tell again a tale once fully told. -- Homer
Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger. -- Homer
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. -- Homer
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. -- Homer
I am going to stand against him now, though his hands are like flame, though his hands are like flame, and his heart like the shining of iron. -- Homer
I believe children are the future ... which is why they must be stopped now! -- Homer
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise. -- Homer
Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse. -- Homer
When a woman says nothing's wrong, that means everything's wrong. And when a woman says everything's wrong, that means everything's wrong! And when a woman says something's not funny, you'd better not laugh your ass off! -- Homer
It is not good to have a rule of many. -- Homer
The race of men is like the race of leaves. As one generation flourishes, another decays. -- Homer
Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame. -- Homer
Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians. -- Homer
A companion's words of persuasion are effective. -- Homer
We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all. -- Homer
this alien earth I stride will hold me down at last. But -- Homer
Hey, what's the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn't God everywhere? -- Homer
I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed? -- Homer
The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain. -- Homer
L. 547. The terms made use of in this line, and in 481, may appear somewhat coarse, as addressed by one Goddess to another: but I assure the English reader that in this passage -- Homer
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind. -- Homer
The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return. -- Homer
As a bull roars when feeding in the field, so roared the goodly door touched by the key and open flew before her. -- Homer
I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another -- Homer
I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me! -- Homer
The motives of the writer form as important an ingredient in the analysis or his history, as the facts he records. Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted. -- Homer
...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise. -- Homer
The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined. -- Homer
And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you. -- Homer
If not yet lost to all the sense of shame. -- Homer
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. -- Homer
The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time. -- Homer
Immortals are never alien to one another. -- Homer
Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead. -- Homer
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing. -- Homer
Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. -- Homer
Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things. -- Homer
Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world. -- Homer
There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder. -- Homer
The journey is its own reward. -- Homer
Young people are thoughtless as a rule. -- Homer
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. -- Homer
Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace. -- Homer
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! -- Homer
The whims of youth break all the rules. -- Homer
He too,I think,should pray to the deathless ones himself.
All men need the gods ... -- Homer
Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. -- Homer
We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you? -- Homer
He called at once to his companion Patroclus, shouting for him from the ship. Hearing the call in his hut, Patroclus equal of Ares came out; and that was the beginning of his end. -- Homer
The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled. -- Homer
Limping, attendants rushed up to support him,
Attendants made of gold who looked like real girls,
With a mind within, and a voice, and strength,
And knowledge of crafts from the immortal gods.
These busily moved to support their lord ... -- Homer
It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing. -- Homer
It is hateful to me to tell a story over again, when it has been well told. -- Homer
Even a fool learns something once it hits him. -- Homer
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. -- Homer
If at first you don't succeed, give up. -- Homer
Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace. -- Homer
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. -- Homer
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve. -- Homer
When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of; if a man is alone he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker. -- Homer
Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face! -- Homer
The windy satisfaction of the tongue. -- Homer
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. -- Homer
They have the Internet on computers now? -- Homer
The single best augury is to fight for one's country. -- Homer
One omen is best; Defending the fatherland -- Homer
What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath? -- Homer
Have patience, heart. -- Homer
There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance. -- Homer
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor. -- Homer
We all scribble poetry. -- Homer
In saffron-colored mantle from the tides
Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light
TO gods and men. -- Homer
Steel itself oft lures a man to fight. -- Homer
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. -- Homer
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. -- Homer
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. -- Homer
It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff. -- Homer
I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T ... Uh, I mean S-M-A-R-T. -- Homer
We got a little rule back home: If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back. -- Homer
Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend. -- Homer
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? -- Homer
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken. -- Homer
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them. -- Homer
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. -- Homer
It is not right to glory in the slain -- Homer
Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.' -- Homer
To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. -- Homer
Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die. -- Homer
If fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep. -- Homer
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile -- Homer
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. -- Homer
Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth -- Homer
I want to be alone with my thought. -- Homer
His native home deep imag'd in his soul. -- Homer
The blade itself incites to deeds of violence. -- Homer
There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands. -- Homer
I'm a rageaholic. I just can't live without rageahol. -- Homer
The evil plan is most harmful to the planner -- Homer
I'm in a place where I don't know where I am! -- Homer
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold;
Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,
Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,
Can bribe the poor possession of the day. -- Homer
Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears. -- Homer
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands? -- Homer
When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work. -- Homer
When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon. -- Homer
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. -- Homer
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind. -- Homer
And not a man appears to tell their fate. -- Homer
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. -- Homer
If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken! -- Homer
Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee. -- Homer
My hour at last has come;
Yet not ingloriously or passively
I die, but first will do some valiant deed,
Of which mankind shall hear in after time. -- Homer
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love. -- Homer
By their own follies they perished, the fools. -- Homer
One rogue leads another. -- Homer
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. -- Homer
Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing. -- Homer
out of sight,out of mind -- Homer
Few sons are like their fathers
most are worse, few better. -- Homer
The creation of genius always seem like miracles, because they are, for the most part, crated far out of the reach of observation. -- Homer
Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals. -- Homer
Over the wine-dark sea. -- Homer
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. -- Homer
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. -- Homer
[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young. -- Homer
Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals. -- Homer
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. -- Homer
Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches. -- Homer
Victory passes back and forth between men. -- Homer
I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos. -- Homer
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies -- Homer
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. -- Homer
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. -- Homer
As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man. -- Homer
Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame. -- Homer
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. -- Homer
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. -- Homer
Dreams are sent by God. -- Homer
I say no wealth is worth my life. -- Homer
Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. -- Homer
Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe
The fate of many. -- Homer
Accept these grateful tears ... For thee they flow, for thee ...
That ever felt another's woe. -- Homer
Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself
in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be
fair. -- Homer
What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose. -- Homer
...for iron of itself draws a man
thereto. -- Homer
[885] Brag while you can, Hector. Zeus and Apollo Have given you -- Homer
Noblest minds are easiest bent. -- Homer
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike. -- Homer
Look at me! I'm a puffy pink cloud! -- Homer
There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation. -- Homer
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. -- Homer
A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds ... it makes ice. -- Homer
The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars. -- Homer
It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most. -- Homer
For too much rest becomes a pain. -- Homer
The tongue of man is a twisty thing. -- Homer
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. -- Homer
A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time -- Homer
We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence. -- Homer
Light is the task where many share the toil. -- Homer
I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four. -- Homer
Never throw a butcher knife in anger. -- Homer
For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will. -- Homer
Some things you will think of yourself, ... some things God will put into your mind -- Homer
Men, we know least, and talk most. Homer, Socrates, and Shakespere have, perhaps, contributed -- Homer
Content to follow when we lead the way. -- Homer
Better to be the poor servant of a poor master. -- Homer
To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea. -- Homer
Bird life aplenty is found in the sunny air, not all of it significant. -- Homer
A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. -- Homer
Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind. -- Homer
Take thou thy arms and come with me,
For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive
To air our cause, although we be but two.
Great is the strength of feeble arms combined,
And we can combat even with the brave. -- Homer
Wine gives strength to weary men. -- Homer
What so tedious as a twice-told tale? -- Homer
I live an idle burden to the ground. -- Homer
Modesty is of no use to a beggar. -- Homer
Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods. -- Homer
The gods are hard to handle - when they come blazing forth in their true power. -- Homer
My name is Nobody. -- Homer
around the country, fill your belly well - -- Homer
Be generous in the bedroom. Share your sandwich. -- Homer
Three thousand years have not changed the human condition in this respect; we are still lovers and victims of the will to violence, and so long as we are, Homer will be read as its truest interpreter. -- Homer
Nothing is more miserable than man, Of all upon the earth that breathes and creeps. -- Homer
The hearts of great men can be changed. -- Homer
The fates have given mankind a patient soul. -- Homer
The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing. -- Homer
For lo? my words no fancied woes relate; I speak from science and the voice of fate. -- Homer
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause. -- Homer
Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his share of the rite, he will not have the same lot as the others, once he is dead and dwells in the mould where the sun goes down. -- Homer
An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself ... -- Homer
