Homer Quotations | Page 5

Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

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

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

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

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

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

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

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

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

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

Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.

This year I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January. Then bang! That's when I'll cash in.

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it taught me not to judge a man by the color of his skin but what good does that do me?

Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

Women are easy, state capitals are hard.

Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

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

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.

Singing is the lowest form of communication.

There is a strength in the even of very sorry men

Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

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

Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.

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

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

And would'st thou evil for his good repay?

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

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.

I war not with the dead.

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.

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.

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.

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

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

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.

Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

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

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

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

On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.

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 too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

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

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!

Never throw a butcher knife in anger.

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

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

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

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.

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

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

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

You don't win friends with salad.

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

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.

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

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.

For too much rest becomes a pain.

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

You know, I've been thinking. Everybody makes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but usually the jelly drips over the side and the guys hands get all sticky, but your jelly stays right in the middle where it's supposed to. I don't know how you do it, you've just got a gift, I guess. I've always thought so. I just never mentioned it, but it's time you know how I feel - I don't believe in keeping feelings bottled up. Good bye, my wife.

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!

If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken!

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

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

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!

If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

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

You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!

Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.

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

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?

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?

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.

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!

I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.