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There were poets before Homer. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. — Ovid
The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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. — John Dryden
Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of… — Karl Marx
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like… — William Allingham
If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I… — Bengie Molina
Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the… — Matt Groening
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie,… — Matt Groening
The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know… — Matt Groening
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some… — Beth Ditto
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that. — Umberto Eco
A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be… — Jonah Hill
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. — Aldous Huxley
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust. — Steven Pinker
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on… — Robert Redford
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? — Samuel Richardson
I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The… — Rick Riordan
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not… — Patrick O'Brian
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson — Matt Groening
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein
I promise I'll do anything for you, especialy if it's easy. Homer Simpson — Matt Groening
Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now. — John Marsden

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