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Homer Quotes - Page 11

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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Country, Men, Bravery

Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.669, Delphi Classics

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

Guests, Hospitality, Offensive

Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

Fear, Heart, Rocks

Ah, good ol’ trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.

Beer, My Love For You, Trustworthy

O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

Children, Home, Eye

Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.90

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

Eye, Rage From The Iliad, Goddess

Homer (1996). “Homer in English”, Penguin Group USA

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

War, Wine, Dark

Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.4415, Delphi Classics

My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.

Wife, Wedding Day, Vow

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.

Spring, Winter, Blow

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

Mind, Lasts, Bears

Homer, John Selby WATSON (1858). “The Odyssey of Homer; Translated by Alexander Pope. To which are Added the Battle of the Frogs and Mice by Parnell; and the Hymns by Chapman and Others. With Observations and Brief Notes by the Rev. J. S. Watson ... Illustrated with the Entire Series of Flaxman's Designs”, p.217

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

Eye, Men, Feet

Homer (2016). “The Iliad”, p.32, Homer

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

Giving, Stranger, Zeus

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

Spring, Fall, Men

Homer (1822). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.170

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

Kings, War, Royalty

Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.44

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

Dog, Parent, Wish

Homer (1963). “The Iliad”

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?

Teeth, Broke, Fence

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.139, University of Chicago Press

Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

Kings, Hunting, Animal

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

Men, Honor, Way

Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.131, Macmillan

One rogue leads another.

Rogues

You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!

Brother, Sauce, Taste

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

Heart, Men, Mind

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.402, University of Chicago Press

Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

Hurt, Helping, Shame

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.

Imagination, Degrees, Vancouver

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

Fighting, Men, Limits

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

Love, War, Tired

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