Homer Quotes
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…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
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Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.
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Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
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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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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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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
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Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.
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Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
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But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
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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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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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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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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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If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.
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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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Everything flows and nothing stays.
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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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But it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.
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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
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Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
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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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Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.
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It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!