Top 523 Quotes & Sayings by Homer - Page 9

There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.

Dreams are sent by God.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

I want to be alone with my thought.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

When a woman says nothing's wrong, that means everything's wrong. And when a woman says everything's wrong, that means everything's wrong! And when a woman says something's not funny, you'd better not laugh your ass off!

Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

A sound mind in a manly body.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his share of the rite, he will not have the same lot as the others, once he is dead and dwells in the mould where the sun goes down.

Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

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

A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

No trust is to be placed in women.

We all scribble poetry.

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

Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end.

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me.

Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

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