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Homer Quotes - Page 13

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Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

Life, Pride, Gold

Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

Goods And Services, Goods

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

Lying, Motherhood, Fatherhood

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Life, Pain, Fate

Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.31

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?

Fun, Thinking, Law

Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.

Sympathy, Grateful, Tears

Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.379, Library of Alexandria

Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

Coffee, Rags, Tables

Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.

Hate, Kids, Internet

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.

Death, Men, Rage From The Iliad

Homer, Derek Jacobi (2006). “The Iliad”, Highbridge Co

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Inspirational, Life, Wise

Homer, René Le Bossu (1769). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.49

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

Knows, Hard, Mortals

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

Girl, Mother, Running

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

Kings, Hate, Men

down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

Curls, Hyacinths, Brows

Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.248, Penguin

[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.

Dream, Strong, White

I'm satisfied. It's straight,...but it's just so hot, and I'm just so fraustrated.

Frustration, Hot, Satisfied

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.

Drinking, Heart, Sleep

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

Home, Soul, Native

Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.258

If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

Jars, Twins, Funny Simpsons

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

Proposal, Funny Simpsons, Flat Tax

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

Tree, Jerk, Standing There

Over the wine-dark sea.

Wine, Dark, Sea

Homer (2004). “Iliad of Homer”, p.128, 1st World Publishing

The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

Sex, Men, Lord

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Life, Success, Heart

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

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