Quotes from Homer

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

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

All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

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

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

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.

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

Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

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

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

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

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.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

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

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

See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!

Dreams are sent by God.

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!

It is not good to have a rule of many.

From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover.

I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.