Homer Quotes
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Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.
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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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A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
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The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.
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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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Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.
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What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.
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I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.
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The Simpsons are going to Delaware!
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I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!
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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.
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By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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His native home deep imaged in his soul.
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On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.
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These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.
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The strong must protect the sweet.
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My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
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All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.