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Homer Quotes - Page 14

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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Depression, Teaching, Names

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

Heaven, Sound, Earth

Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.384

Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be fair.

Looks, Asking, Like Me

I want to be alone with my thought.

Want, My Thoughts, Wants To Be Alone

This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!

Way, Cylinders, Should

And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

Here I Am, Sucker, Great Simpsons

Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.

Florida, Grandpa, Biting

I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?

Moon, Names, Guy

Canada? Why would I want to leave America just to visit America, Jr.?

America, Want, Canada

Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

Funny Simpsons, Good Things, Ends

Boy, everyone is stupid except me.

Stupid, Boys

Do I know what rhetorical means?

Mean, Rhetorical, Knows

Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

The strong must protect the sweet.

Sweet, Strong, Funny Simpsons

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

Ocean, Science, Earth

It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff.

People, Watches, Stuff

A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

Boys, Balls, Liquid

Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.

Aries, Fit, Knows

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

Spring, Wind, Tree

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

Drinking, Grief, Passion

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

Strong, Men, Two

Homer (1836). “Homer”, p.294

On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.

Home, Rocks, Sea

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Men, Honor, Alive

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Lying, Winning, Dust

Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

Fighting, Swings, Skills

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