Quotes of Homer - somelinesforyou

“ Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need. ”

- Duke of Buckingham

“ The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully. ”

- Aristotle

“ I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout. ”

- Babe Ruth

“ Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone. ”

- Mark McGwire

“ I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple. ”

- Catfish Hunter

“ I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. ”

- John B. S. Haldane

“ A homer a day will boost my pay. ”

- Josh Gibson

“ There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics… We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. ”

- Voltaire

“ DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease… ”

- Ambrose Bierce
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