Homer Quotes

I war not with the dead.

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

Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life. The sun will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks.

Oh what a friend chance can be — when it chooses.

I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.

Long exercised in woes.

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

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

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

For too much rest becomes a pain.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

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

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.

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

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

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

Victory passes back and forth between men.

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

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

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.

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

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

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.

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

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Do I know what rhetorical means?

I don't know how much longer I can complain.

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.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking CO₂ out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Immortals are never alien to one another.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

The Simpsons are going to Delaware!