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Homer Quotes - Page 5

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Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

Beauty, Faces, Enchanting

Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.379

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

Children, Dad, Father

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

Country, Eye, Men

Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

Wine, Thoughtful, Men

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Way, Spirit, Argument

Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.231

We men are wretched things.

Men, Wretched

"Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

Strength, Hope, Expectations

Homer (1806). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.78

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Practice, Age, Way

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

Fighting, Total War

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

Literature, Compare, Sane

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

Lying, Men, Civilization

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

Heart, Tongue, Slander

Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.380

Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

Trust, Casts, Spears

Homer (1898). “The Iliad of Homer”

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

War, Home, Sea

Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.

Believe, House, I Believe

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

Hateful, Miserable, Mortals

Odyssey VII.215

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

Men, Heaven, Sacred

Homer (1873). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.91

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

People, Needs, Use

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

Looks, Remember, Great Simpsons

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

Winning, Men, Hands

Homer (2008). “Odyssey, Homer”, Spark Publishing Group

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Mind, Banquets, Discourse

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.251

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

Lying, Two, Together

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

Running, War, Heart

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

Pain, Men, Long

Homer, George Herbert Palmer (1998). “The Odyssey”, p.149, Courier Corporation

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

Anger, Men, Honey

"The Iliad". Epic poem by Homer, c. 750 BC.

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