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Homer Quotes - Page 21

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He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

Children, Long, Battle

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Men, Brave, Coward

Homer (2012). “The Iliad”, p.74, Courier Corporation

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.

Men, Weapons, Tongue

Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

Men, Half, Slavery

Forget the brother and resume the man.

Brother, Men, Forget

Homer (1840). “Homer”, p.320

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Men, Cities, Kind

It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.

Sorrow

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

Wise, Lying, Men

Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.135, Penguin

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

Fame, Renown, Deathless

Homer (1769). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.329

Ajax the great Himself a host.

Greatness, Ajax, Host

But you can't stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!

Drink, Funny Simpsons, Funniest Simpsons

You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

Might, Calendars, Tomorrow

No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.

Beer, Tvs

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

Boys, Eerie, Mess

The sex is ever to a soldier kind.

Sex, Soldier, Kind

Homer, John Selby WATSON (1858). “The Odyssey of Homer; Translated by Alexander Pope. To which are Added the Battle of the Frogs and Mice by Parnell; and the Hymns by Chapman and Others. With Observations and Brief Notes by the Rev. J. S. Watson ... Illustrated with the Entire Series of Flaxman's Designs”, p.229

We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths.

Bowling, Ifs

Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.

Spring, Blow, Men

Homer (1950). “The Iliad”, Turtleback

The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.

Strong, Men, Wife

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

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Eye, Silence, Speech

Homer, Alexander Pope (1809). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.1072

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

Dream, Two, Ivory

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

Men, Heaven, Greek

Homer (1805). “The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc”, p.165

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

Men, Shame, Beggar

Homer (1950). “The Complete Works of Homer: The Iliad”

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

White, Dumb, Age

Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.

Change, One Word

Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.77

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