Homer Quotes - Page 18

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• We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths.

  Homer

  Bowling, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

  Homer

  Glorious

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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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• When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

  Homer

  People, Democracy

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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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• 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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• The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

  Homer

  Giving, Lord, Please

  Homer (1937). “The Odyssey, the Story of Ulysses”

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

  Homer

  Muse, Traveller, Wide

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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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• The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

  Homer

  Country, Fighting, Patriotism

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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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• Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

  Homer

  War, Nice, Wind

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, Penguin

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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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• Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

  Homer

  War, Civil War, Homeless

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, Penguin

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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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• Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold;
  Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,
  Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,
  Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

  Homer

  Life, Pride, Gold

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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• No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.

  Homer

  Beer, Tvs

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• Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

  Homer

  Mother, Father, Thee

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.162, Library of Alexandria

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• Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

  Homer

  Ocean, Night, Light

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• Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

  Homer

  Goods And Services, Goods

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• You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

  Homer

  Might, Calendars, Tomorrow

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