Homer Quotes - Page 4

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• Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

  Homer

  Laughter, Sky, Absurd

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.47, Homer

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• Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.

  Homer

  Sleep, Giants, Blenders

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• It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

  Homer

  Song, Novelty, Audience

  Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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• Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

  Homer

  Dad, Father, Son

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• The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teaching, Teens

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

  Homer

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Homer, W. C. Armstrong (1851). “Translation of the Iliad of Homer”, p.267

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• If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.

  Homer

  Stupid, Mad, Stupid Things

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• He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

  Homer

  Would Be, Iliad

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• Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

  Homer

  Tired, Wine, Men

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• Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.

  Homer

  Life, Hate, Too Much

  Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.293

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• It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.

  Homer

  Sorry, Sorrow

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• The journey is the thing.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Journey

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• Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.

  Homer

  Song, Hero, Stories

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• We men are wretched things.

  Homer

  Men, Wretched

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• 'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.

  Homer

  Sad, Strong, Dust

  Homer “The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions”, Library of Alexandria

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• Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

  Homer

  Shining, Chance, Action

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• The lot of man-to suffer and die.

  Homer

  Men, Suffering, Coping

  Homer (2010). “Odyssey”, p.100, The Floating Press

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• Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

  Homer

  Men, Heaven, Sacred

  Homer (1873). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.91

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• I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

  Homer

  Country, Eye, Men

  Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

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• Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

  Homer

  Fighting, Total War

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• I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!

  Homer

  Laughing, Teach

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• Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

  Homer

  Men, Mind, Age

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• And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.

  Homer

  Husband, Grief, Home

  Homer, Stanley Lombardo (2000). “Odyssey”, p.41, Hackett Publishing

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• There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

  Homer

  Wander, Mortals

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• Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

  Homer

  Wine, Thoughtful, Men

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