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 situation has gone from bad to worse.
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When mothers and fathers are supportive or each other, it makes each of their paternal jobs infinitely easier. And parents who cannot bear being in one another's presence reveal as much, if not more, to a child about romantic love as anything the mother or father might say.
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But many more daughters of distant fathers are unable to reach orgasm, or achieve it with consistency with any man. Indeed these daughters have the most trouble in bed: for them, affection and arousal are synonymous with rejection.
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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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We can't get into a situation of bargaining with terrorists because this would put many more people's lives at risk, not only in Iraq but around the world.
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It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.
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Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.
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My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell everyone, 'You have to stop washing your hair so much!'
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
