Homer Quotes - Page 16

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• A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

  Homer

  Persuasion, Companion

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• Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

  Homer

  Depression, Teaching, Names

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• down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

  Homer

  Curls, Hyacinths, Brows

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.248, Penguin

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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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• But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

  Homer

  Friendship, Race, Soul

  Homer (2013). “penelopeia, a wife's enduring love”, p.459, Lulu.com

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• Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.

  Homer

  Wish, Dollars, Eternal Happiness

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• To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

  Homer

  Sea, Tomorrow, Morrow

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• Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

  Homer

  Husband, Horns, Racket

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• When I was seventeen
  I drank some very good beer
  I drank some very good beer I purchased
  With a fake ID
  My name was Brian McGee
  I stayed up listening to Queen
  When I was seventeen

  Homer

  Queens, Beer, Names

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• God help me, I'm just not that bright.

  Homer

  Helping, God Help Me, Enchanted

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• I don't know how much longer I can complain.

  Homer

  Annie Hall, Complaining, Drawn Together

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• She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

  Homer

  Wise, Color, Sensual

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• Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.

  Homer

  Dream, Two, Ivory

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

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• Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.

  Homer

  Unity, Vain, Force

  Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.34

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• Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

  Homer

  Son, Childhood, Ancestry

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.326

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• To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

  Homer

  Life, Men, Woe

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.627, Delphi Classics

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• Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

  Homer

  Back Again

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• The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

  Homer

  War, Play, Want

  Homer (1963). “The Iliad: the story of Achilles”, New American Library of Canada

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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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• A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Men

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

  Homer

  Father, Fall, Son

  Homer (1996). “The Odyssey”, Viking Press

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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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