38 Homer Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Somebody Else Name Author Same Either Iliad Homer

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle

Art Other Telling Telling Lies Lies Poets Chiefly Taught Who Homer

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle

Art Other Telling Telling Lies Lies Poets Taught Homer

The Democratic party, respective to health care, is like a person who was sent into the store to purchase a gallon of milk and some butter for the evening's meal and instead walked out with a 'Gladiator' DVD, a can of Easy Cheese, and some Homer Simpson house slippers because how funny are they? Dana Loesch

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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre. P. J. O'Rourke

Recite Batteries Kindle Except Along Returns Handy While Scroll Us Iliad Electronic Homer Bringing Inconvenience Playing

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved. Andre Aciman

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood. Beth Ditto

Mom Me Happy Mother Father Long Too Other Though Some Guy Had He Name She Stick Around Dude His Blood Get Lent Rid Fling Who Even Dad Chose Homer

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. Chaim Potok

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer. Charles Olson

Like Sound Mean Homer

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper. Charles Peguy

Today Morning Old Nothing New Perhaps Newspaper Homer

Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer. Chick Hearn

Fool Win Think Anybody Want Lakers Who Homer

One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair. Dan Castellaneta

Gay Hair Changing Secretary Favorite Had He Since Because Issue Very Grew Which Episode Episodes Unique Even Homer Image

I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do. Dan Castellaneta

People Think Other Know Most Even Homer Things

When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.' Franz Wright

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. John B. S. Haldane

Wish Voice Had Sing Homer

I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he tries to gain enough weight to qualify as disabled to be allowed to work from home. All I was missing was his kaftan and Fat Guy Hat. So, I decided it was time to diet. John Niven

Work Time Myself Home Enough Scales Visit Hat Find Tries Guy Disabled Allowed Weight He Simpson Missing Like Qualify Returned His Diet Tipping Decided Gain Homer Fat Last

What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's 'Iliad,' I can see parallels in Chinese historical romances, in the way the first emperor of the Han dynasty and his chief rival are portrayed. Ken Liu

Me First Everything Way Parallels See About Rival Emperor Terms Read His Historical Chief Romances Achilles Dynasty Chinese View Iliad Fascinating Connections Homer Portrayed

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!' Matt Groening

Education Saying Jokes People Matter Frame Our Solution Some Head Simpsons Because His Reference Get Banging The Simpsons Who Homer

The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore. Matt Groening

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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. Michelangelo Antonioni

Man Moon Living Moral Concepts Scientific Still Homer

Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's constantly exposed to consumption and a sense of bigness, which is a part of being an American. Mitchell Joachim

People Sense Though Favorite Favorite People Constantly He Part Consumption Simpson Real American Represents Being Which Exposed Filled Homer

I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil. Rick Riordan

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