Top 523 Quotes & Sayings by Homer - Page 7

Over the wine-dark sea.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

I'm satisfied. It's straight,...but it's just so hot, and I'm just so fraustrated.

I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

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

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.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

The strong must protect the sweet.

Do I know what rhetorical means?

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

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

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.

There is a strength in the even of very sorry men

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

Singing is the lowest form of communication.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

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

This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!

You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car!

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

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

All men have need of the gods.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

By turns the nine delight to sing

We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.

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

Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.

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

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.

I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.

Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be fair.

And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

And would'st thou evil for his good repay?

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.

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.

There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

But you can't stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

I war not with the dead.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

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

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

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

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