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Homer Quotes - Page 18

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God help me, I'm just not that bright.

God help me, I'm just not that bright.

Helping, God Help Me, Enchanted

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

Kings, Rocks, Self

There is a strength in the even of very sorry men

Sorry, Men, Sorry Men

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

Life, Eulogy, Razors

"Iliad". Poem by Homer, Book X. Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900.

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

Son, Childhood, Ancestry

Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.326

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.

Unity, Vain, Force

Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.34

Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.

Dream, Two, Ivory

Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

I don't know how much longer I can complain.

Annie Hall, Complaining, Drawn Together

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

Sea, Tomorrow, Morrow

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

Sleep, Singing, And Love

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.309, University of Chicago Press

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

Men, Half, Slavery

Homer (1752). “The Odyssey of Homer: Translated from the Greek”, p.139

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Strong, Persuasion

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.275, University of Chicago Press

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

Jobs, Half, Way

I war not with the dead.

War

Homer, W. C. Armstrong (1851). “Translation of the Iliad of Homer”, p.168

I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

Moving, Forever, Arches

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

Military, Fighting, Battle

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

Men, Light, Sea

Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

Grief, Son, Blood

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

Zoos, Gone, Dinosaurs

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

Sports, Strong, Heart

Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.160

And would'st thou evil for his good repay?

Evil

Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.454

A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.

Country, Fall, Glorious

Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.315, Homer

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

Football, Beer, Dirt

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

Leadership, Matter, Common

Homer (1805). “The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc”, p.88

We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.

Brain, Quality, Looks

Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.62, Delphi Classics

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