Homer Quotes

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Way
  • Emotional

• This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Time
  • Real
  • Political

• I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Food

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Kind
  • Leisure

• I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Difficult

• Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Computer

• The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Find
  • Seriously

• Eloquence is logic on fire.

  

  Lyman Beecher
  • Fire
  • Logic
  • Eloquence

• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Passion
  • Envious
  • Rust

• No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Crime
  • Vulgar

• These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

  

  Plato
  • Democracy
  • Common
  • Equal

• Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.

  

  Alison Levine
  • Respect
  • Kindness
  • Importance

• For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

  

  Homer
  • Pleasure
  • Suffered
  • Pains