Homer Quotes - Page 21

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• Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

  Homer

  Ignorance, Salt, Heard

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.293

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• A sound mind in a manly body.

  Homer

  Military, Mind, Sound

  Homer (2013). “The Homer Anthology”, p.1747, eBookIt.com

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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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• And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

  Homer

  Here I Am, Sucker, Great Simpsons

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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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• Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

  Homer

  Shame, Poor, Comrade

  Homer (1877). “The Odyssey”, p.118

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• Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

  Homer

  Mind, Lord, Righteous

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.66, Delphi Classics

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• Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.

  Homer

  Waste, Flocks, Left Behind

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.66, Delphi Classics

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• It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff.

  Homer

  People, Watches, Stuff

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• The strong must protect the sweet.

  Homer

  Sweet, Strong, Funny Simpsons

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• Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

  Homer

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

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• Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

  Homer

  Air, Toil, Weight

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.412

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• The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.

  Homer

  Strong, Men, Wife

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.62, Delphi Classics

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

  Homer

  Age, Birth

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• The hearts of great men can be changed.

  Homer

  Heart, Men, Great Men

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

  Homer

  Done, Fool, Iliad

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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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• Victory passes back and forth between men.

  Homer

  Men, Victory, Iliad

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.179, University of Chicago Press

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• And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
  In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.

  Homer

  Soul, Lasts, Mead

  Homer (2013). “The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus”, p.426, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Homer

  Lying, Fiction, Mouths

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