Homer Quotes
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True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
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And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
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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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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
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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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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
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Have patience, heart.
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I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
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For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.
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'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.
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A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice.
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Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw.
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I'm a people person...who drinks.
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We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
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See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
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She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
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What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?
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My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.
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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
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Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
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Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.