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Homer Quotes - Page 7

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Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Grief, Fate, Men

Homer (2005). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.4, Bantam Classics

But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.

Grieving, Winning, Men

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

Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

Dog, Moving, Loss

Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

Summer, Stars, Ocean

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.145, University of Chicago Press

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Fate, Men, Balance

Homer (1773). “The Iliad”, p.423, Hayes Barton Press

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

Looks, Use, Rage From The Iliad

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

Fighting, Fate, Men

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

Discontent, Best Things

Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.81

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

Daughter, Men, Feet

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

Wife, Rage From The Iliad, Fields

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Grief, Blessing, Two

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

Men, Feet, Feminist

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

Men, Body, Fats

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

Pain, Way, Odyssey

Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.48, Penguin

Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins.

One Day, Tvs, Ends

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

Men, Alive, Earth

Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Literature

Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?

Moochers, Huts

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

Shame, Lost, Ifs

It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

Home, Men, Doe

Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

Laughter, Blessed, Uncontrollable

Homer, Martin Hammond (2000). “The odyssey”, Duckbacks

If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken!

Thinking, Mistaken, Ifs

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

Tongue, Satisfaction, Windy

Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.352

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Country, Fighting, Men

Have patience, heart.

Heart, Having Patience

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