Homer Quotes - Page 14

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

  Homer

  Silence, Jubilation

  Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

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• Look at me! I'm a puffy pink cloud!

  Homer

  Clouds, Looks, Look At Me

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• Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

  Homer

  Friendship, Two Friends, Soul

  Homer (1840). “Homer”, p.55

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• To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

  Homer

  Fear, Men, Intimate

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• 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.

  Homer

  Blessing, Men, Two

  Homer (1773). “The Iliad”, p.190

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• Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.

  Homer

  Aries, Fit, Knows

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• All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

  Homer

  Daughter, Eye, Men

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.262, Xist Publishing

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• I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men

  Homer

  Men, Blood, Drink

  Homer (1963). “The Iliad”

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• Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

  Homer

  Men, Thinking, Earth

  Homer (2013). “The Iliad: The Story of Troy - Rendered Into English Prose (by Samuel Butler) for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original”, p.73, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

  Homer

  Warrior, Dies, Huge

  Homer (2012). “The Iliad”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• A small rock holds back a great wave.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Rocks

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• I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

  Homer

  Lying, Fiction, Mouths

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• Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

  Homer

  Tales, Grain, Repeats

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.429, Penguin

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• Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

  Homer

  Mother, Strong, Powerful

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• Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

  Homer

  Muse, Traveller, Wide

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• ...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

  Homer

  Men, Sheep, Blood

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.355, Macmillan

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• Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall

  Homer

  Hate, Fall, Men

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad & The Odyssey”, p.337, Booklassic

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• Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

  Homer

  Girl, Mother, Running

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• Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

  Homer

  Kings, Hate, Men

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

  Homer

  Wise, Lying, Men

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

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• How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

  Homer

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Homer, René Le Bossu (1769). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.49

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• A man's life breath cannot come back again--
  no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
  once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

  Homer

  Death, Men, Rage From The Iliad

  Homer, Derek Jacobi (2006). “The Iliad”, Highbridge Co

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• It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

  Homer

  Charity, Philanthropy, Poor

  Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.274

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• For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
  And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

  Homer

  Life, Pain, Fate

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.31

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• Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee...
  That ever felt another's woe.

  Homer

  Sympathy, Grateful, Tears

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.379, Library of Alexandria

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