Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
Homer
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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
REMY DE GOURMONT It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give...
DAVID GOWER We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find...
LEE R. RAYMOND A man and wife should see the best in each other, should work together, should enjoy each other.
GENA SHOWALTER The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all ...
C.S. LEWIS No candidate should arrogantly insist on debating only where and when it best suits him.
WILLIAM DALEY No candidate should arrogantly insist on debating only where and when it best suits him,
WILLIAM DALEY I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
HOMER SIMPSON Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible pictu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible pictu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN It will enable people to learn in a way that they are most comfortable. Some people like to read, wh...
JAMES MAHAR I didn't think it would be that quick, or on a homer by him.
PAUL KONERKO If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him
RICHARD BURDON HALDANE That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a f...
JOSEPH ADDISON To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.
DANIEL CONSIDINE Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
UMBERTO ECO The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
ARTHUR MILLER His collection of Homer is the best collection assembled by anyone since the artist's death.
MARC SIMPSON Videlicit,
That each man swore to do his best
To damn and perjure all the rest.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I like playing against serve-and-volleyers because returning is one of my best things that I do on t...
ANDY MURRAY I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.
CHRIS COLFER No man does his best work in any one day of the year
DANIEL GUGGENHEIM They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.
JAMES GALWAY The basic idea is to help people find the food that best suits their needs and their preferences.
DAVID MERRILL I was coming after him because he already had his homer tonight.
BOB WICKMAN Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cookin...
BOBBY FLAY Kata Kanjeng Nabi: "The best man is the most beneficial for each other".
DEKALITA Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
ALEXANDER POPE We're going to challenge Homer. Homer's going to dictate where we send him.
JOHNNY ALMARAZ Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, ...
WILLIAM JAMES Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself,...
WILLIAM JAMES His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him...
TAHEREH MAFI Don't think of him as a Republican, think of him as the man I love; and if that doesn't work, think ...
MARIA SHRIVER There is an immense, childlike enthusiasm about the man. It's inspiring when you work with a 77-year...
SAM MENDES I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.
BIBLE We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wed...
JUAN MARICHAL It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it i...
ASHLEY MONTAGU The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not ...
ANONYMOUS The perfect combination of everything that not only delights, but exalts me is my husband. I could n...
KATE MULGREW The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks abo...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of ...
ALCIBIADES Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
HESIOD Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Joy delights in Joy
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling
you seem to say so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the
night cometh, when no man can work...
BIBLE No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the ch...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
WILLIAM BLAKE For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life
WILLIAM BLAKE If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him!If he pays you wages that supply you your bread ...
ELBERT HUBBARD I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
CHARLES OLSON To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
SUSAN BLOW I have destroyed almost the whole race of frogs, which does not happen in that savage Batrachomyo...
MARCELLO MALPIGHI Perception cheats in the name of reason and belief cheats in the name of religion. There is no escap...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
THEODORE WHITE Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
UWE BOLL The ‘relative’ delights the mind (manoranjan), the ‘real’ delights the Self (the soul, atmar...
DADA BHAGWAN Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look for...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING He's Hawks through and through. We like that he's a click or two left of neutrality. He's a slight h...
BERNIE MULLIN (Homer) There is the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way! (Bart) Isn't that the wrong wa...
HOMER SIMPSON Alex is a likeable young man and we wish him the best.
BLISS LITTLER If he can't find something that suits him, he may be back. So again, we have not severed that relati...
FLOYD REESE There is a deportment, which suits the figure and talents of each person; it is always lost when we ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.
HOMER SIMPSON Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Whether an officer should have a weapon when entering a court facility is a very controversial subje...
NATIONAL CENTER Each one of the girls thought that they had finished the day with their best performances. I have to...
JAMIE PINCKARD Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the t...
JOHN MALKOVICH No need for everyone to look the same.
The secret is to wear what suits you best!
CHICA UMINO My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward...
BRUCE COVILLE We played man-to-man and that was what we were going to start out with. I knew I had to do my best t...
ANTONIO DIMARIA I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in house...
ROBERT FITZGERALD It is in the best interest of a man to become a Karma-Yogi and work to the best of his abilities and...
SAM VEDA Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his ...
MARK TWAIN Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his h...
MARK TWAIN We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal
from Homer . . . . Our storydresse...
ROBERT BURTON Woman wants monogamy; / Man delights in novelty. / Love is woman's moon and sun; / Man has other for...
DOROTHY PARKER No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance ...
JEREMY TAYLOR He's tough and probably the best I've seen for a freshman. We tried to double him using a zone and p...
LARRY GLATCZAK Gravity holds the stones in place. That way, they hold each other in place, fit best and look best.
TERRY DOYLE Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru w...
SIVANANDA SARASWATI What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...
HENRI POINCARE If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the sam...
NANCY KRESS A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
SHOLOM ALEICHEM Work has raised the man and it also taught him to aim higher.
MARIANA FULGER
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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 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 …but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
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