Homer Quotes
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When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.
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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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If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken!
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A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
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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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The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.
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Everything flows and nothing stays.
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This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!
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The best thing in the world is a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.
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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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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
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Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!
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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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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
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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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She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.
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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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Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be fair.
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If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.
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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
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Do I know what rhetorical means?
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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.