Homer quotes
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“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
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“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.”
-- HomerSource : Homer (2008). “The Odyssey: Easyread Large Edition”, p.146, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
-- HomerSource : Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet
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“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
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“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.”
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“Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.”
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“Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut tree.”
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“Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.”
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“Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.”
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“For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.”
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“If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?”
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“Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile”
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“Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.”
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“Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.”
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“We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!”
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“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.”
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“some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind”
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“I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”
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“Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.”
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“No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.”
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“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”
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“When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.”
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“You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.”
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“I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!”
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“Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.”
-- HomerSource : Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.234
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“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”
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“But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.”
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“Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.”
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“The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.”
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“A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.”
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“Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”
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“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.”
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“Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge.”
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“When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.”
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“Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.”
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“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.”
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“Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.”
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“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.”
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“The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!”
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“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.”
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“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!”
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“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.”
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“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
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“Hey, what's the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn't God everywhere?”
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“Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.”
-- HomerSource : Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.3216, Delphi Classics
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“In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane.”
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“...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.”
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“I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.”
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“So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.”
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“Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.”
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“I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
-- HomerSource : "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.
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“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.”
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“Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.”
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“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
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“If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.”
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“It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.”
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“Each man delights in the work that suits him best.”
-- HomerSource : Homer (1996). “The Odyssey”, Viking Press
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“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
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“The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.”
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“Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.”
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“I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.”
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“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.”
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“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”
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“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.”
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“A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!”
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“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”
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“Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.”
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“The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.”
-- HomerSource : Homer (1848). “The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope”, p.37
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“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.”
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“There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.”
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“A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.”
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“There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.”
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“A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.”
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“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.”
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