7 > 7's Quotes

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“Στο βάθος του μυαλού μου όμως ξέρω πως εδώ στο νησί μας, όπως και αλλού, οι γάτες ξεχνάνε, οι άνθρωποι ξεχνάνε και η τρέλα δε θέλει πολύ να φουντώσει πάλι, φτου ξανά απ'την αρχή...”
― Eugene Trivizas, The Last Black Cat

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
― Homer

“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
― Homer, Iliad

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”
― Homer

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”
― Homer

“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.”
― Homer (Odyssey)

“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“The journey is the thing.”
― Homer

“Life is largely a matter of expectation. ”
― Homer

“youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.”
― Homer

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“There will be killing till the score is paid.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.”
― Homer, Iliad

“some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms,
longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer
spent in rough water where his ship went down
under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea.
Few men can keep alive through a big serf
to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches
in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind:
and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband,
her white arms round him pressed as though forever.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men”
― Homer

“Choose well.”
― Homer