Homer Quotes
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
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Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.
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Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
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The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
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Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
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Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
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And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.
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And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs.
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Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.
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Everything flows and nothing stays.
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
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If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.
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The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.
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If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken!
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When a woman says nothing's wrong, that means everything's wrong. And when a woman says everything's wrong, that means everything's wrong! And when a woman says something's not funny, you'd better not laugh your ass off!
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The best things beyond their measure cloy.
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I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.
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But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
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The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.
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And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
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Each man delights in the work that suits him best.