Homer Quotes - Page 17

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• What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

  Homer

  Tales, Repetition, Tedious

  Homer (1873). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.207

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• Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

  Homer

  Men, Half, Slavery

  Homer (1752). “The Odyssey of Homer: Translated from the Greek”, p.139

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• There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

  Homer

  Sleep, Singing, And Love

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.309, University of Chicago Press

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• There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

  Homer

  Sorrow, Advantage, Grim

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.517, University of Chicago Press

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• Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

  Homer

  Men, Giving, Talent

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• It is not right to exult over slain men.

  Homer

  War, Men

  "The Odyssey". Epic poem by Homer, c. 725 BC.

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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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• 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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• I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.

  Homer

  Hate, I Hate, Tales

  Homer (1871). “The Odyssey of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse”, p.272

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• No season now for calm, familiar talk.

  Homer

  Calm, Familiar, Seasons

  Homer (1791). “The Iliad: of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. ...”, p.109

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• One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

  Homer

  Travel, Rivers, Rushing

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.137

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• Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

  Homer

  Wealth, Praise, Eternal

  Homer, W. C. Armstrong (1851). “Translation of the Iliad of Homer”, p.495

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• The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.

  Homer

  Tales, Hard

  Homer (1861). “The Odyssey of Homer: Books I-XII”, p.307

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• Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

  Homer

  Fighting, Men, Steel

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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• Forget the brother and resume the man.

  Homer

  Brother, Men, Forget

  Homer (1840). “Homer”, p.320

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• Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.

  Homer

  Dream, Fate, Men

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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• Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

  Homer

  Done, Fool, Iliad

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• Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

  Homer

  Kings, Honor, Proud

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• Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

  Homer

  Men, Race, Earth

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

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• The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.

  Homer

  Age, Birth

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

  Homer

  Change, One Word

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

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

  Homer

  Men, Heaven, Greek

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

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