The best things beyond their measure cloy. Homer More Quotes by Homer More Quotes From Homer How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Homer wise inspirational life A man's life breath cannot come back again-- Homer rage-from-the-iliad men death By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. Homer philanthropy charity giving It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise. Homer philanthropy charity poor Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Homer pride gold life Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away. Homer blow winter spring Too many kings can ruin an army Homer army leadership kings Have patience, heart. Homer having-patience heart There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. Homer alive earth men A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly. Homer guests thank-you travel [B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away. Homer strong white dream These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows. Homer drinking sleep heart Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. Homer rage-from-the-iliad house forget And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house. Homer grief memories father Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle! Homer fighting fire men Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on Homer hurt doe past Who love too much, hate in the like extreme. Homer too-much hate life For love deceives the best of woman kind. Homer kind love life I want to be alone with my thought. Homer wants-to-be-alone my-thoughts want Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself Homer like-me asking looks
