Homer Quotes

Canada? Why would I want to leave America just to visit America, Jr.?

Boy, everyone is stupid except me.

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

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.

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.

I want to be alone with my thought.

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

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

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

All men have need of the gods.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.

I say no wealth is worth my life.

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

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

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

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

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

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.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins.

I'm a rageaholic. I just can't live without rageahol.

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

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

Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

The whims of youth break all the rules.

We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.

No season now for calm, familiar talk.

I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.

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.

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

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We all scribble poetry.

Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.