Homer quotes:

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

On with you, horse-taming Trojans! Never give Greeks best in your will to fight! They are not made of stone or iron. Their flesh can't keep out penetrating spears when they are hit.

But his sister, Artemis of the wild, the lady of wild beasts, scolded him bitterly and spoke a word of revilement:'You run from him, striker from afar...Fool, then why do you wear that bow, which is wind and nothing.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

Ajax the great Himself a host.

We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!

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

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 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.

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

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.

Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall

The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

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

Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.

And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.

I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

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

Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut tree.

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

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!

Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

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

The Simpsons are going to Delaware!

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

And empty words are evil.

Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.

Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.

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

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

The hearts of the great can be changed.

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

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

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

Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge.

Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.

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.

God help me, I'm just not that bright.

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

When I was seventeen I drank some very good beer I drank some very good beer I purchased With a fake ID My name was Brian McGee I stayed up listening to Queen When I was seventeen

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

After the event, even a fool is wise.

The long historian of my country's woes.

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain.

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?

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.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.

Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

No trust is to be placed in women.

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.

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.

out of sight,out of mind

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

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

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

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?

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.

Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

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

For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Do I know what rhetorical means?

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

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

The evil plan is most harmful to the planner

Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.