
Top 31 Quotes About Homer Odyssey
#1. [On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.
Mary McGrory
#2. Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can.
Never be angry.
These three steps will lead you
Into the presence of the gods.
Gautama Buddha
#3. I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!
Rebecca McKinsey
#4. I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish.' Homer, The Odyssey
Andy Miller
#5. The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.
Oscar Wilde
#6. But sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away
Homer
#7. Goddess of song, teach me the story
of a hero.
Homer
#8. Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.
George Carlin
#9. 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
#10. He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
Homer
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways,
who was driven far journeys
Homer
#14. But if your story is about the inner workings of competitive quilting, you'd better make it short and extra witty. People drift off when you stop talking about stuff that isn't, well, them. The
Scott Adams
#15. 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
#16. Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal?
Homer
#17. When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.
Anita Elberse
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Defeat the enemies strategy.
Sun Tzu
#21. It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.
John Lewis Gaddis
#22. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
Homer
#23. Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices
Homer
#24. And suddenly, there were the shapes of many people lurking out of the woods, light glowing from their hands.
Serena Winter
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't matter how great you were, it'll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.
Banksy
#28. 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
#29. The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
Andre Maurois
#30. 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
#31. 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
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