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It is not right to glory in the slain

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

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

My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.

Hey, what's the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn't God everywhere?

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

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.

Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

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

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

As the wind scatters leaves upon the earth, such is the race of men

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Too many kings can ruin an army

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe
The fate of many.

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

Accept these grateful tears ... For thee they flow, for thee ...
That ever felt another's woe.

Ajax the great Himself a host.

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

Content to follow when we lead the way.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

The sex is ever to a soldier kind.

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.

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

Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw

The life, which others pay, let us bestow,
And give to fame what we to nature owe.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a
bottle. THEY'RE ON TV!

I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.

The gods are hard to handle - when they come blazing forth in their true power.

Singing is the lowest form of communication.

Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
Smote the surrounding fields.

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

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

[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.

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.