Top 100 Quotes About Homer
#1. Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle.
#2. Homer no function beer well without.
Homer
#3. Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
Ovid
#4. For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
Alexander Pope
#5. When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.
Alice Oswald
#6. Wake up, buddy. You okay?" "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" Homer's VR came online, smiling. "I guess we got'em." I snorted with relief. "And their little dog, too." Homer steepled his fingers in a properly evil mastermindish pose. "All their base are belong to us.
Dennis E. Taylor
#7. Illiada by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.
Brad Pitt
#8. My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
Beth Ditto
#9. There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.
Jorge Luis Borges
#10. The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible
William Blake
#11. Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?
James A. McDougall
#12. When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'
Franz Wright
#13. Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.
John Mark Reynolds
#14. I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
Robert Fitzgerald
#15. Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
Horace
#16. Homer is right: "Bad is the lordship of many; let one be your ruler and master." For such a man law would be rather an instrument than a limit: "for men of eminent ability there is no law - they are themselves a law.
Will Durant
#17. I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
Mary Shelley
#18. Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
Robert Fitzgerald
#19. As we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer and Virgil, perhaps with only Homer alone.
Thomas Jefferson
#20. [Ned Flanders]: Well looks like someone's having a pre-rapture party.
[Homer Simpson]: No, Flanders. Its a meeting of gay witches for abortion, you wouldn't be interested.
Matt Groening
#21. A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.
Jonah Hill
#22. I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Simpson's IQ.
Jane Green
#23. There are no compacts between Lions and Men: and Wolves and lambs have no concord.- Homer
Rick Royster
#24. But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. With Cosette's garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him Nestor.
Victor Hugo
#26. The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
#27. One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
Dan Castellaneta
#28. The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable.
-Professor Charles Homer Haskins
Jill Lepore
#29. With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his ... It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.
George Bernard Shaw
#30. Homer's Iliad was the cultural encyclopedia of pre-literate Greece, the didactic vehicle that provided men with guidance for the management of their spiritual, ethical, and social lives.
Marshall McLuhan
#31. He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control.
John Irving
#32. I was as good as resisting Griff Shipley as Homer Simpson was at resisting a donut.
Sarina Bowen
#33. I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
Ted Naifeh
#34. The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
Johann Georg Hamann
#35. For them, and for Homer, impermanence is life's central sorrow and the source of its most lasting pain.
Adam Nicolson
#36. By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
Plato
#37. Santa's Little Helper
Isn't it ironic that Homer calls his pet
the same name Marge calls his penis?
Beryl Dov
#38. If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.
Victoria Finlay
#39. I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.
Moby
#40. These are sad days in literature. Homer is dead. Shakespeare is dead. And I myself am not feeling at all well.
Mark Twain
#41. Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread
Thomas Seward
#42. There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
Tariq Ali
#43. Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm ... he really paints men.
Eugene Delacroix
#44. I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.
Curt Gowdy
#45. Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson
Matt Groening
#46. The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#47. Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
John Milton
#48. Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
Thomas Heywood
#49. This, for Homer, is the tragedy of being human: to desire freedom, and be tortured by a sense of autonomy, and yet be imprisoned by forces beyond our control.
Kenan Malik
#50. If one could read fluently, confidently, in every known language, one would have no need of translators or translations; one could read Homer on Mondays, Akhmatova on Tuesdays, Swahili poets on Wednesdays, and so on.
Abraham Verghese
#51. If I had learned one thing from Homer over the years, it was that just because you couldn't quite see your way out of a difficulty, that didn't mean a way out didn't exist.
Gwen Cooper
#52. I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
Robert Fitzgerald
#53. It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. Television: teacher, mother, secret lover.' HOMER SIMPSON
Marion Appleby
#56. Nurse Angela, with her love of cats and orphans, once remarked of Homer Wells that the boy must adore the name she gave him because he fought so hard not to lose it.
John Irving
#57. No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.
Homer
#58. Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
[Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]
Lucretius
#59. In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
#60. Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.
Chick Hearn
#61. Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.
William Cowper
#62. I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]
Horace
#63. I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.
William Golding
#64. Homer say, Pretty gal go a river and see herself in water. Pretty gal drown when she go down to kiss herself.
Marlon James
#65. In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile
movable.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#66. No text more thoroughly penetrated Cleopatra's world. In an age infatuated with history and calibrated in glory, Homer's work was the Bible of the day.
Stacy Schiff
#67. I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.
Rick Riordan
#68. I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
Peter O'Toole
#69. You remember how I used to tell you that I was Doctor Larch's helper?" Homer asked Angel.
"Right," said Angel Wells.
"Well, I got very good
at helping him," Homer said. "Very good. I'm not an amateur
John Irving
#70. A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
Chaim Potok
#71. Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'
Matt Groening
#72. Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#73. The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley
#74. Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.
Richard Armour
#75. He might have told Homer, then, that he loved him very much and that he needed something very active to occupy himself at this moment of Homer's departure.
John Irving
#76. This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.
Adam Nicolson
#77. As a text, the Quran is more than the foundation of the Islamic religion; it is the source of Arabic grammar. It is to Arabic what Homer is to Greek, what Chaucer is to English: a snapshot of an evolving language, frozen forever in time
Reza Aslan
#78. This found its classic expression in Homer's Iliad, in which Glaucus says to Diomedes that he still hears his father's urgings ringing in his ears: Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head high above the others.
Anthony Everitt
#79. Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.
Cass Sunstein
#80. YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
Ambrose Bierce
#81. In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
Bobby Thomson
#82. Mrs. Erskine struck him as fierce and plain and haughty as one of those straight-backed red-haired girl-women in certain of the watercolors of Winslow Homer.
Joyce Carol Oates
#83. I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.
Simon Armitage
#84. The Scripture stories do not, like Homer's, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us - they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.
Erich Auerbach
#85. Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.
Roger Ebert
#86. Future?" Homer said. He was a little embarrassed because all his life, from day to day, he had been busy mapping out a future, even if it was only a future for the next day. "Well," he said, "I don't know for sure, but I guess I'd like to be somebody some day.
William, Saroyan
#87. There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
Voltaire
#88. I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
Dan Castellaneta
#89. Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
Philip Sidney
#90. Goddamn Homer and his idiotic story of the Sirens' song.
S.J. Harper
#91. Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's constantly exposed to consumption and a sense of bigness, which is a part of being an American.
Mitchell Joachim
#92. I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish.' Homer, The Odyssey
Andy Miller
#93. The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.
Oscar Wilde
#94. We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.
Steven Pinker
#95. An alluring woman
need not bat an eyelash
to hit a homer
and steal a man's heart.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#96. Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
Edward Said
#97. Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.
Harold Holzer
#98. For all his profanity and bedroom antics, though, Homer was a relative prude when it came to misbehaving on the page.
Jonathan Galassi
#99. After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
Dejan Stojanovic
#100. Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.
Henry Miller
