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…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.


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J.D. SALINGER By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
PLATO The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this...
MARTHA GELLHORN There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far ...
VOLTAIRE They were by far the better side and wanted it more than we did.
PAUL MILLAR Silvia, with her long gorgeous hair sprawled across the pillow, was the most beautiful creature I’...
J.R. THORN 'The Odyssey,' by Homer,
STEPHEN COONTS By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
JOHN LITHGOW How people started to disappear??
It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% su...
DEYTH BANGER They are more aggressive than we are use to from the red-headed turkey vultures. They swoop in more ...
BILL PETERSON This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
DAVID GRAYSON We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
DAVID GAYSON By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are...
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE There would be nothing to gain by sowing a field of wheat… if the harvest did not return more than...
SUPER GIRL By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
STEVIE NICKS A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
ERNIE FLETCHER I’m fucking demanding, and you should know that if you ever feel like experimenting and ask me for...
TAYLOR V. DONOVAN Had the love been perennial, there won’t have been murders of wives by husbands and murders of hus...
GIRDHAR JOSHI The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE She’d always envied beautiful women. Not solely for the beauty itself but because when attributes ...
TESSA DARE There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return mo...
NAPOLEON HILL You're the one who may die," the alchemist said. "I already know how to turn myself into the wind.
THE ALCHEMIST BY PAULO COELHO I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe ...
CICERO Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions tha...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.
AUDRINA PATRIDGE By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.
CONOR MCGREGOR But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all instituti...
JOHN BUCHANAN ROBINSON Take a sheet and get it wet and lay it across you, then go lay by an open window. When the breeze bl...
PEGGY ANDREWS Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. The...
JOHN C. CALHOUN You take Seattle and lay it over Colorado and that's Homer.
ASIA FREEMAN Love – a painting once craved that gets farther and farther away by the day...
MARIANA FULGER We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.
EMMA CAULFIELD You think you've got a guy down, and he throws it 40 yards across the field, and you have to run tha...
COREY MCKEON There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
CICERO Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.
CHINESE PROVERBS The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than t...
ADRIENNE RICH If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of ...
JACK HANDY It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we a...
EDMUND BURKE Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than ...
JOHN HOEVEN As far as I can tell, the Republicans, at least on Capitol Hill, are far more immoral, by their own ...
JOE CONASON I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really likin...
RANDY BACHMAN By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
VACLAV KLAUS Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
MIKE TYSON By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
HOZIER By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to ...
DAVID MORSE Our wives are home taking care of everything by themselves. It's a hardship on the wives as well.
PAT WALSH Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat...
THOMAS CARLYLE Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT So, it makes sense that perception might be more influenced by language in the right half of the vis...
AUBREY GILBERT I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the ye...
DONALD G. MITCHELL There is far more behind these power interruptions than they admit to.
CHARLES KADALIE You only accomplish things by sticking together as players on the field. It's a team sport. Yes ther...
BRIAN MCBRIDE They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, ...
JO BRAND Morgan hit a good pitch, I thought. He hit it a long way to the opposite field. [On Ausmus' homer], ...
JASON ISRINGHAUSEN Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common int...
MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV People are more savvy than ever. They aren't too interested in a 10-by-10 deck. A lot of people don'...
DAVE TIBBETTS His collection of Homer is the best collection assembled by anyone since the artist's death.
MARC SIMPSON Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER I think this goes far broader than public broadcasting. I think across the board there is an effort ...
DAVID OBEY People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other...
BLAISE PASCAL They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.
CICERO The women wrote by far the best essays. They really captured the passion of it. Men are more reserve...
LARRY GIFFORD But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We've had more success in more areas, by far, than we've ever had before going into these games. We'...
BOB CONDRON Matthew had won this battle—a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by sca...
STEVE V. CYPERT There are many false tales and theories about animal behavior. Most people, for example, think that ...
FRANK ALLEN The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by o...
BLAISE PASCAL (Homer) There is the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way! (Bart) Isn't that the wrong wa...
HOMER SIMPSON Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive
WILBUR WRIGHT The recovery continues to be slow. Government reserves will more than make up for reduced production...
KYLE COOPER In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by ...
DAVID PERLMUTTER What Greenspan is proposing is far too little, far too late, and what he needs to do is not prod the...
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CAMILLE PAGLIA Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA But it's almost always cheaper and more convenient to park across the street than park across the tr...
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and wherever they go
b...
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JAMES DONALD That was by far the coldest I've ever been on a baseball field. The wind was in my face the whole ti...
MATT MCGRAW By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.
JOHN CENA They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.
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AESCHYLUS I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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It is not right to glory in the slain.
HOMER Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
HOMER The rose Dawn might have found them weeping still had not grey-eyed Athena slowed the night when nig...
HOMER There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, ...
HOMER For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother
HOMER The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
HOMER Light is the task where many share the toil.
HOMER And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
HOMER A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
HOMER Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
HOMER I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
HOMER How vain, without the merit, is the name.
HOMER Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a sing...
HOMER Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
HOMER A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly.
HOMER At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,
Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:
Then,...
HOMER For too much rest becomes a pain.
HOMER There will be killing till the score is paid.
HOMER Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
HOMER The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
HOMER Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
HOMER The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gen...
HOMER Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught th...
HOMER Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
HOMER Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
HOMER The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, ...
HOMER The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
HOMER A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
HOMER Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
HOMER The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
HOMER For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...
HOMER A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
HOMER Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
HOMER It is not good to have a rule of many.
HOMER To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...
HOMER In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
HOMER Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from th...
HOMER True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
HOMER Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
HOMER Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
HOMER The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
HOMER Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
HOMER There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
HOMER Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
HOMER But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp con...
HOMER Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint ...
HOMER …There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—mag...
HOMER Winged words.
HOMER At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince!...
HOMER It is a wise child that knows his own father.
HOMER A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
HOMER The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
HOMER The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
HOMER You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
HOMER Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
HOMER We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
HOMER There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the...
HOMER The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
HOMER So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor ...
HOMER Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the ...
HOMER May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a ho...
HOMER Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they th...
HOMER It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
HOMER It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You...
HOMER I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood ...
HOMER Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
HOMER Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee co...
HOMER Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, a...
HOMER It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
HOMER It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
HOMER It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
HOMER It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his de...
HOMER If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
HOMER I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
HOMER He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when h...
HOMER He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
HOMER Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the sam...
HOMER A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
HOMER A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, w...
HOMER A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and...
HOMER A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
HOMER It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to ...
HOMER I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
HOMER Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
HOMER Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. F...
HOMER By their own follies they perished, the fools.
HOMER All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
HOMER All men have need of the gods.
HOMER A small rock holds back a great wave.
HOMER Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both...
HOMER You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has giv...
HOMER Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselv...
HOMER There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
HOMER There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
HOMER Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
HOMER Do not mourn the dead with the belly
HOMER Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
HOMER And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
HOMER All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious
HOMER Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told s...
HOMER Far and near friends knew this house; for he whose home it was had much acquaintance in the world
HOMER The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
HOMER Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that s...
HOMER No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he ...
HOMER Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you.
As there are no trustworthy oaths between...
HOMER Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure…
For al...
HOMER But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, nev...
HOMER Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do every...
HOMER And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing ...
HOMER We ask that (employees) take care of your personal business as needed. Should you require more time ...
HOMER Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across...
HOMER Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
HOMER How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
HOMER I'm satisfied. It's straight, ... But it's just so hot, and I'm just so frustrated.
HOMER There is nothing nothing more nobler or more admirable than two people who see eye to eye keeping ho...
HOMER Wisdom never lies
HOMER By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
HOMER Achilles absent, was Achilles still
HOMER A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly
HOMER …and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you ...
HOMER Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet ...
HOMER Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
HOMER Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
HOMER Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than war
HOMER [I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at ...
HOMER He went off without a word along the shore of the sounding sea.
HOMER For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and...
HOMER They would eat its blossoms and stalks in the spring, ... And use its fiber to make rabbit nets, san...
HOMER Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured
HOMER Too many kings can ruin an army
HOMER But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of w...
HOMER By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember
HOMER [B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals.
The sinews no longer hold the fle...
HOMER Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...
HOMER down from his brow
she ran his curls
like thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms
HOMER Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.
HOMER These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them,
or he can enjoy listening to storie...
HOMER Immortals are never alien to one another.
HOMER So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all....
HOMER out of sight,out of mind
HOMER Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
HOMER And empty words are evil.
HOMER Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his de...
HOMER some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind
HOMER Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
HOMER My name is Nobody.
HOMER Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themsel...
HOMER Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their mis...
HOMER Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
HOMER Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.
HOMER A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a t...
HOMER There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HOMER Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...
HOMER The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy ...
HOMER There was one on Kentucky Avenue that sunk so much that a lady couldn't even get out of her driveway...
HOMER When your design stinks, Engineering 101 says admit your mistakes and go back to the drawing board,
HOMER After the event, even a fool is wise
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen but his country's cause
HOMER I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another
HOMER The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
HOMER What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...
HOMER ...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glit...
HOMER For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...
HOMER Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
HOMER Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HOMER I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see th...
WINSLOW HOMER Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.
HOMER SIMPSON It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
HOMER HICKAM The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.
WINSLOW HOMER I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to ...
HOMER HICKAM I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by an...
WINSLOW HOMER That's another way we can support the program.
CARL HOMER The exponential costs of Medicaid are increasing at a rate they probably can't afford.
CARL HOMER You can't play with one hand in this business at all. You have to be really focused.
CARL HOMER At this time we're not prepared to devote the kind of resources needed to succeed. Not in the forese...
CARL HOMER Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil pi...
WINSLOW HOMER A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse.
HOMER HICKAM Mmm... Organized Crime
HOMER SIMPSON 'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
HOMER SIMPSON Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
WINSLOW HOMER You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of o...
WINSLOW HOMER The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and...
HOMER SIMPSON I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get th...
WINSLOW HOMER It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 ...
HOMER SIMPSON Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time &...
WINSLOW HOMER Trying is the first step towards failure". - Homer Simpson
HOMER SIMPSON Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?
HOMER SIMPSON Jebus, Buddha, I love you alllllllllllllllllll
HOMER SIMPSON Stupid Flounders!
HOMER SIMPSON We have learn't a very valuable leasson today: it's better to watch stuff then to do stuff.
HOMER SIMPSON Just because i don't listen doesn't mean i don't understand.
HOMER SIMPSON If you're going to get mad at me everytime I do something stupid then I guess I'll have to stop doin...
HOMER SIMPSON Marge, don’t discourage the boy. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separa...
HOMER SIMPSON