Homer Quotes - Page 6

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• Immortals are never alien to one another.

  Homer

  Aliens

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• It is not right to glory in the slain

  Homer

  Glory

  Homer, George Herbert Palmer (1998). “The Odyssey”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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• For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

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  Pain, Men, Long

  Homer, George Herbert Palmer (1998). “The Odyssey”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

  Homer

  Mind, Banquets, Discourse

  Homer, John Selby WATSON (1858). “The Odyssey of Homer; Translated by Alexander Pope. To which are Added the Battle of the Frogs and Mice by Parnell; and the Hymns by Chapman and Others. With Observations and Brief Notes by the Rev. J. S. Watson ... Illustrated with the Entire Series of Flaxman's Designs”, p.251

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• I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

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  Death, Suicide, Men

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• Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

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  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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• See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!

  Homer

  Pairs, Stills, Worthless

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.65, Delphi Classics

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• Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

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  Wisdom, Lying, Deceit

  Homer (2013). “penelopeia, a wife's enduring love”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.

  Homer

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  Homer (2013). “The Homer Anthology”, p.1704, eBookIt.com

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• It is a wise child that knows his own father.
  [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

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  Wise, Children, Father

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• Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!

  Homer

  Kids, Ice Cream, Wish

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• Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.

  Homer

  Giving, Ears

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.11

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• A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

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  Men, Age, Young

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• The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

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  War, Hands, Outcomes

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• The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

  Homer

  God, Casts, Glorious

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• Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

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  Son, Rage From The Iliad, Achilles

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• Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

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  Military, War, Fall

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• Noblest minds are easiest bent.

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  Mind, Bent, Nobility

  Homer (1729). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.1234, Library of Alexandria

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• I long for home, long for the sight of home.

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  Home, Sight, Long

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1961). “The Odyssey”, Anchor Books

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• Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

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  Men, Noble, Deeds

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• The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

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  Son, Dark, Curls

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.29

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• I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.

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  Funny Simpsons, Funniest Simpsons, Great Simpsons

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• Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

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  Grief, Fate, Men

  Homer (2005). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.4, Bantam Classics

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• ...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

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  Summer, Stars, Ocean

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.145, University of Chicago Press

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• But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

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  Looks, Use, Rage From The Iliad

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