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Homer Quotes - Page 17

All Quotes Achilles Age Beer Birth Blame Charity Children Country Dad Death Earth Evil Fame Fate Feelings Fighting Friendship Giving Glory God Grace Grief Hate Heart Heaven Honor House Husband Inspirational Joy Killing Leadership Life Literature Love Lying Military Muse Pain Philanthropy Praise Running Shame Singing Sleep Son Sorrow Soul Speed Spring Success Suffering Twins War Wealth Wife Wine Winning Youth

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

Charity, Philanthropy, Poor

Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.274

The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.

Tales, Hard

Homer (1861). “The Odyssey of Homer: Books I-XII”, p.307

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

Thinking, Iliad, Valiant

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

Long, Lasts, Iliad

A sound mind in a manly body.

Military, Mind, Sound

Homer (2013). “The Homer Anthology”, p.1747, eBookIt.com

It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

Success, Fighting, Men

Homer (1848). “The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope”, p.151

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

War, Nice, Wind

Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, Penguin

And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.

Soul, Lasts, Mead

Homer (2013). “The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus”, p.426, Lulu Press, Inc

And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Whole

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

War, Play, Want

Homer (1963). “The Iliad: the story of Achilles”, New American Library of Canada

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Song, War, Men

Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

Back Again

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

Tales, Grain, Repeats

Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.429, Penguin

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

Sleep, And Love, Fullness

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Giving, Lord, Please

Homer (1937). “The Odyssey, the Story of Ulysses”

I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

Meals, Breakfast, Brunch

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

Husband, Horns, Racket

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

Wise, Color, Sensual

Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.

Wish, Dollars, Eternal Happiness

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Leadership, Sleep, Responsibility

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

Friendship, Race, Soul

Homer (2013). “penelopeia, a wife's enduring love”, p.459, Lulu.com

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Life, Men, Woe

Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.627, Delphi Classics

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

Judgement, Vehemence, Youth

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

Men, Giving, Talent

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

When I was seventeen I drank some very good beer I drank some very good beer I purchased With a fake ID My name was Brian McGee I stayed up listening to Queen When I was seventeen

Queens, Beer, Names

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