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Homer Quotes

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The journey is its own reward.

The journey is its own reward.

Journey, Rewards

Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.

Challenges, Goes On, Spirit

The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.

Stars, Lying, Never Lie

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Beautiful, Rage From The Iliad, Chaos

"Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

Everything flows and nothing stays.

Spiritual, Philosophical, Flow

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

Deeds, Doers, Mental Health

Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.3216, Delphi Classics

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Love, Marriage, Wedding

Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.

Inspirational, Teenager, Suffering

Homer (1996). “The Odyssey”, Viking Press

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Inspirational, Learning, Heart

Homer (2008). “The Odyssey: Easyread Large Edition”, p.146, ReadHowYouWant.com

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!

Nice, People, Everyday

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Inspirational, Teenager, Struggle

Homer (2013). “The Iliad: An Epic Poem About the Trojan War, the Ten-Year Siege of the City of Troy (Ilium) by a Coalition of Greek States - Battles and Events During the Weeks of a Quarrel Between King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.316, Lulu Press, Inc

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

Stupid, Doe, Kidneys

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

Thank You, Travel, Guests

For too much rest becomes a pain.

Pain, Too Much

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Communication, Wind, Literature

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

Heart, Funeral, Suffering

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

Death, Iliad, Inches

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Teamwork, Light, Team Building

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Men, Evil, Deeds

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Inspirational, Teenager, Men

Homer (1996). “The Odyssey”, Viking Press

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Fate, Insightful, Hardship

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Inspirational, Good Night, Teenager

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

Distinguished

'The Iliad' bk. 6, l. 208

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Heart, Literature, Hateful

Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.234

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