Homer Quotes
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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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The strong must protect the sweet.
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See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!
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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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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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Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.
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I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!
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A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
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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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I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!
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I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.
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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
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The Simpsons are going to Delaware!
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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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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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Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.
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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
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His native home deep imaged in his soul.
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Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.
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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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Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.
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But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.