Homer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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[885] Brag while you can, Hector. Zeus and Apollo Have given you

The journey is its own reward.

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

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

...for iron of itself draws a man
thereto.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

As a bull roars when feeding in the field, so roared the goodly door touched by the key and open flew before her.

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

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

heights th' immortal Gods, Jove

I don't want to look like a weirdo. I'll just go with the muumuu.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

One omen is best; Defending the fatherland

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Few sons are like their fathers
most are worse, few better.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

My every impulse bends to what is right

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

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

We all scribble poetry.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover.

Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below.

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

We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
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Hyrtacides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: "O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar." [bk.12]

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.

Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

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

The hearts of great men can be changed.

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

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

The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

God help me, I'm just not that bright.