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Homer Quotes - Page 20

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Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

Sadness, Flames, Land

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Burden, Idle, Idleness

Homer (1806). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.290

Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

Heaven, Links, Golden

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

Return, Rich, Fame

Homer (1822). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.209

Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

Air, Toil, Weight

Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.412

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

Mother, Father, Thee

Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.162, Library of Alexandria

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

Shame, Poor, Comrade

Homer (1877). “The Odyssey”, p.118

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.

Waste, Flocks, Left Behind

Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.66, Delphi Classics

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

Wish, Doe, Guests

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

People, Democracy

My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

Deeds, Lasts, Firsts

Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.271

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Men, Brave, Honor

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

Mourning, Belly, Mourn

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

Blessing, Men, Two

Homer (1773). “The Iliad”, p.190

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Friendship, Two Friends, Soul

Homer (1840). “Homer”, p.55

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

Mother, Gambling, Monsters

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

Wine, Men, Wisest Man

Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.481, Penguin

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Men, Giving, Grace

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

Love, Years, Long

Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.2, Macmillan

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

Hurt, Past, Doe

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.419, University of Chicago Press

Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain.

Silence, Jubilation

Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Father, Believe, Moving

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

House, Rage From The Iliad, Forget

Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Tales, Tedious

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Home, Men, Departed

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