Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
Homer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Homer
Author
Poet
Writer
Homerus
Homeros
Mæonides
Iliad
Immortal
Gods
Built
Lasts
Last
Long
More quotes by Homer
To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!
Homer
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
Homer
Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.
Homer
If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.
Homer
The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
Homer
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.
Homer
Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!
Homer
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.
Homer
The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
Homer
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
Homer
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
Homer
Good things don't end in -eum they end in -mania or -teria.
Homer
Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.
Homer
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.
Homer
Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.
Homer
And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.
Homer
The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
Homer
Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?
Homer
The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
Homer
Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.
Homer