I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
Quote by Homer
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I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
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Homer Quotes
- A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
- All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
- A small rock holds back a great wave.
- It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
- There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
- Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
- You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
- The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
- The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
- The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
Best Quotes
- That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
- My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
- I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.
- An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
- When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
- Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
- Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
- To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.