Homer Quotes

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

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• Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Passion

• Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Sweating

• I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • True

• Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Work
  • Today
  • Freedom

• My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Training
  • Goal
  • Spot

• The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Words
  • Shadow

• Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Running
  • Fall
  • Heaven

• I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Opportunity
  • Organization
  • Missing

• He who leaves the game wins it.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Game
  • Wins
  • Leaves

• I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

  

  Xavi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• The seeing have the world in common.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Seeing
  • Common World

• Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Justice
  • Desires

• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Cracks
  • Decay

• In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Crime
  • Criminals
  • Decay

• He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Decay
  • Plots
  • Ciphers

• Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Promise
  • Ceremony

• So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

  

  Homer
  • Decay
  • Shalt