Homer Quotes
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Quotes to Explore
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I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
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Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.
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I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
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The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
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Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
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The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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Man is a biped without feathers.
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted.
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We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different and familiar, but ultimately itself, comfortable in its own skin, wise and smart and crazy-sexy or maybe sexy-crazy-well, you just have to read it to understand. It's a novel that sets its own course, sure and steady, even when it seems like it might be about to go over the edge of the world.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
