Stills Quotes by Homer

14 Stills quotes by Homer

Even the epic storyteller finds room for quiet. These fourteen lines show Homer stepping back from battle and voyage, letting the silence of a night or a pause in a journey speak louder than any heroic shout.

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Internet! Is that thing still around?

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Achilles absent was Achilles still!

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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

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...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows…

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

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

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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a…

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On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines,…

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[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and…

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Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the…

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Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote…

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Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man…

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For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the…

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The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he…

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He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

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“Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.”

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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

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“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years…

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

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“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves…

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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over…

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“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for…

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Boy, everyone is stupid except me.

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“With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he would take…

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Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

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

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My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

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Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

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