Top 100 Quotes About Homer
#1. To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.
Sammy Sosa
#2. It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
Winslow Homer
#3. A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.
Homer
#4. The hearts of the great can be changed.
Homer
#5. My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius
Homer
#6. 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
#7. I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.
Homer
#8. The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
Homer
#9. To alcohol! The cause of ... and solution to ... all of life's problems
Matt Groening
#10. 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
#11. Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines.
Edgar Lee Masters
#13. Internet! Is that thing still around?
Homer
#14. They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.
Homer
#15. He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
Robert Redford
#16. What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?
Homer
#17. Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
Homer
#18. Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
Homer
#19. The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.
William Strunk Jr.
#20. Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
Homer
#21. And what does he have to say to the impressionable young student at his side? That all poets must eventually bow before the haiku. Bow before the haiku! Can you imagine." "For my part," contributed the Count, "I am glad that Homer wasn't born in Japan." Mishka
Amor Towles
#22. Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.
Homer
#23. I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of the year while a .227-hitting, rapidly fossilizing Rickey Henderson staggered like a delirious marathoner toward 3,000 hits.
Stephen Rodrick
#24. If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
Homer
#25. All men begin their learning with Homer.
Xenophanes
#26. ... but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
Homer
#27. I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
Catfish Hunter
#28. Have patience, heart.
Homer
#29. A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
Homer
#30. To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
Homer
#31. 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
#32. Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
Homer
#33. Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
Horace
#34. A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Homer
#35. 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
#36. There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.
Adam Nicolson
#37. We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!
Homer
#38. Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
Homer
#39. Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.
Homer
#40. His descent was like nightfall.
Homer
#41. This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!
Homer Simpson
Matt Groening
#42. 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
#43. Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are ...
Harold Homer Anderson
#44. They have the Internet on computers now?
Homer
#45. 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
#46. Bunny put away his copy of The Bride of Fu Manchu and started carrying around a volume of Homer instead.
Donna Tartt
#47. I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.
Homer
#48. The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
Homer
#49. Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.
Patrick Kavanagh
#50. I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
George Herman
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
Homer
#54. We have come to this earth upon a mission ... that we may have power to go forth and warn the nations of the earth ... As elders of Israel, very few of us fully comprehend our position, our calling, our relationship to God, our responsibility, or work the Lord requires at our hands
G. Homer Durham
#55. And woe succeeds woe.
Homer
#56. The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.
Homer
#57. I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.
Homer Simpson
Matt Groening
#58. Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
Uwe Boll
#59. Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.
Homer
#60. To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
George Herman
#61. And would'st thou evil for his good repay?
Homer
#62. It was in looking at sea gulls that it first occurred to Homer Wells that he was free.
John Irving
#63. My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.
Homer
#64. Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
Homer Simpson
#65. We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths.
Homer
#66. Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
Homer
#67. I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.
Winslow Homer
#68. Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
Homer
#69. No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.
David Frawley
#70. Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Homer
#71. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife ...
Homer
#72. The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.
Homer
#73. Do not mourn the dead with the belly.
Homer
#74. The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.
Matt Groening
#75. It's certainly hard to find fault with a work that quotes Shakespeare, Homer, and a dirty limerick about "the young man from Oswego.
Simon Sheppard
#76. And not a man appears to tell their fate.
Homer
#77. Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.
Homer
#78. The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.
Homer
#79. It was the gray sea that bore you and the towering rocks, so sheer the heart in you is turned from us.
Homer
#80. Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
Homer
#81. Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.
Helen Keller
#82. Stop thinking about fun and have it
Homer Simpson
Matt Groening
#84. Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.
Homer
#85. ... 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
#86. What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you.
Homer
#87. Women are easy, state capitals are hard.
Homer
#88. Oh Ellie, doesn't it make your mouth water?"
"It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.
John Marsden
#89. Modesty is of no use to a beggar.
Homer
#91. I'm a homer, so the closer [I perform] to my house the better. If I could get crowds to gather around my bed, that would be ideal. I also like doing stand-up in places that I can surf, snowboard, or anywhere that I have a pregnancy scare.
Daniel Tosh
#92. All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
Homer
#93. The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
Robert Fitzgerald
#94. You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
Homer Simpson
Matt Groening
#95. Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!
Homer
#97. We all scribble poetry.
Homer
#98. All men have need of the gods.
Homer
#99. When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."
Jonah Hill
#100. Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.
Homer
