Homer Quotes
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After the event, even a fool is wise.
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Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
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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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Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although we be but two. Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave.
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Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
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Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
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Out of sight, out of mind.
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I say no wealth is worth my life.
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The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
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Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
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Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.
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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!
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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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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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Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.
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The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.
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Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.
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Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.
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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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I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!
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Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'
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Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.
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Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!