Quotes About Homer

Ah, good ol' trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.

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

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

Homer Simpson has been more inspirational to me than probably any cartoon character. What he represents, I think, there's a part of that in everybody. There certainly is in me, and I love that.

Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge of the history of the human race; for it is remarkable that no transcript of them has ever been made into any modern tongue, unless our civilization itself may be regarded as such a transcript. Homer has never yet been printed in English, nor AEschylus, nor Virgil even—works as refined

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

The popularity of perpetual motion machines is widespread. On an episode of The Simpsons, entitled "The PTA Disbands," Lisa builds her own perpetual motion machine during a teachers' strike. This prompts Homer to declare sternly, "Lisa, get in here…in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

I want to be a homer. I'm getting paid for something that I love to do. I would do it for nothing.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer , where there were gods of the sky and the Earth, the thunderstorm, the oceans and the underworld, fire and time and love and war; where every tree and meadow had its dryad and maenad.

Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.

It is hateful to me to tell a story over again, when it has been well told.

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.

For lo? my words no fancied woes relate; I speak from science and the voice of fate.

Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal?

He had better beware our wrath, great man though he is. What is he doing in his fury but insulting senseless clay?

And so the Trojans buried Hector, breaker of horses.

As a bull roars when feeding in the field, so roared the goodly door touched by the key and open flew before her.

With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he would take the city of Priam then, that very day, the fool.

the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.

soon as rosy-fingered morning came forth from the first grey dawn

L. 547. The terms made use of in this line, and in 481, may appear somewhat coarse, as addressed by one Goddess to another: but I assure the English reader that in this passage

L. 151. Chthizos, yesterday. But either the word must have a more extended signification than is usually given to it, or Homer must here have fallen into an error; for two complete nights and one day, that on which Patroclus met his death, had intervened since the visit of Ajax and