Homer Quotes
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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
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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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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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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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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.
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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
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But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
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It is a wise child that knows his own father.
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
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The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made.
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Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
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Down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms.
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To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!
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She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.
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Death submits to no one.
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
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Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.
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You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.
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For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
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Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.
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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
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Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.