Facts about Homer
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Homer is a famous Poet from Greece, he/she is 123 years old and still alive, born .
Our collection contains 28 quotes who is written / told by Homer, under the main topic Marriage.
Famous quotes by Homer (28)
"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep"
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for"
"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another"
"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired"
"To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it"
"Light is the task where many share the toil"
"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe"
"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid"
"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends"
"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"
"A decent boldness ever meets with friends"
"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another"
"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers"
"Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing"
"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause"
"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others"
"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this"
"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother"
"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform"
"Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both"
"Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend"
"True friends appear less moved than counterfeit"
"It is not good to have a rule of many"
"Hunger is insolent, and will be fed"
"How vain, without the merit, is the name"
"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions"
"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared"
"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends"
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