It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. Homer More Quotes by Homer More Quotes From Homer Light is the task where many share the toil. Homer team-buildinglightteamwork Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender. Homer blendersgiantssleep Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever. Homer husbandeyebeach Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other. Homer togethertwolying The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. Homer teensteachinginspirational Even a fool learns something once it hits him. Homer fool-me-onceteenagerinspirational Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. Homer agemindmen I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny! Homer teachlaughing The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us. Homer seadarklying Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use. Homer usepeopleneeds Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. Homer prayerheartmen Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth! Homer militarywarfall Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods. Homer prayermenneeds It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. Homer mencivilizationlying Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. Homer god I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me. Homer great-simpsonsfunniest-simpsonsfunny-simpsons 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 the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. Homer daughterfeetmen Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns. Homer fategriefmen Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles. Homer doglossmoving I long for home, long for the sight of home. Homer sighthomelong
