Homer Quotes

#1. A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

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#2. A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

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#3. Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

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#4. And not a man appears to tell their fate.

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#5. ... 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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#6. Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!

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#7. Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

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#8. All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

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#9. Down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

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#10. 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.

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#11. The strong must protect the sweet.

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#12. 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.

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#13. The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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#16. There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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?

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#19. And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

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#20. 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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#21. 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 ...

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#22. God help me, I'm just not that bright.

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#23. 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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#24. It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

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#25. around the country, fill your belly well -

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#26. I believe children are the future ... which is why they must be stopped now!

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#27. 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.

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#28. Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.

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#29. All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

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#30. We men are wretched things.

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#31. It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

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#32. Long exercised in woes.

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#33. I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.

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#34. Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices

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#35. 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.

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#36. Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

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#37. Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

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#38. Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

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#39. 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 -

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#40. The gods are hard to handle - when they come blazing forth in their true power.

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#41. Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.

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#42. What's out of sight, is out of mind

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#43. In saffron-colored mantle from the tides
Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light
TO gods and men.

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#44. Nothing is more miserable than man, Of all upon the earth that breathes and creeps.

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#45. Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

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#46. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

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#47. We got a little rule back home: If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.

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#48. 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.

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#49. The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.

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#50. 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.

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#51. I say no wealth is worth my life.

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#52. Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal?

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#53. The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

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#54. Hey, what's the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn't God everywhere?

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#55. Better to be the poor servant of a poor master.

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#56. It is hateful to me to tell a story over again, when it has been well told.

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#57. His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

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#58. 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.

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#59. 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.

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#60. It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff.

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#61. 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.

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#62. 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.

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#63. out of sight,out of mind

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#64. But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

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#65. 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

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#66. The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

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#67. I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

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#68. I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

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#69. The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

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#70. The evil plan is most harmful to the planner

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#71. Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

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#72. Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

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#73. A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds ... it makes ice.

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#74. Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

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#75. The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

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#76. There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

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#77. 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.

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#78. Goddess of song, teach me the story
of a hero.

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#79. 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.

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#80. The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

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#81. It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most.

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#82. There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

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#83. rolling eye balls

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#84. 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.

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#85. A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

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#86. Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

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#87. Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

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#88. All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

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#89. I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.

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#90. And empty words are evil.

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#91. I war not with the dead.

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#92. It is a wise child that knows his own father.
[Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

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#93. The heart in his rugged chest was pounding, torn

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#94. It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

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#95. 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.

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#96. 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.

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#97. A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

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#98. Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

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#99. 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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#100. It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

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