Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
HomerWhy so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.
HomerSuffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
HomerZeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.
HomerSo it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
HomerThere is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
HomerReproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.
HomerYou know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.
HomerProud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.
HomerSing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
Homer[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.
HomerLike leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.
HomerRemember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.
HomerGoddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
HomerAll the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
HomerI am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.
Homer