Homer

Country	Australia
Born	Monday, 30 November -0001
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Quotes	55

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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.	Uncategorized
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.	Uncategorized
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.	Uncategorized
There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.	Uncategorized
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.	Uncategorized
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.	Uncategorized
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.	Uncategorized
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.	Uncategorized
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.	Uncategorized
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.	Uncategorized
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.	Uncategorized
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.	Uncategorized
It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.	Uncategorized
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.	Uncategorized
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.	Uncategorized
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.	Uncategorized
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.	Uncategorized
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.	Uncategorized
By their own follies they perished, the fools.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized

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