Posts Tagged ‘Homer’
Homer vs. Homer
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
I appreciate wisdom wherever I find it. Homer is one of my favorite sages – either Homer the Greek philosopher or Homer Simpson, I don’t care which. Here are a series of quotes from the great Homers, courtesy of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Best of the Best edition. (Like I said, wisdom is where you find it.) The first in each series is from the Greek, the second is from the Simpson.
- “It is the bold man who every time does his best.”
- “I don’t know, Marge. Trying is the first step toward failure”
- “The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”
- “You gave both dogs away? You know how I feel about giving!”
- “The fates have given mankind a patient soul.”
- “Give me some piece of mind or I’ll mop the floor with you!”
- “Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man’s accursed appetite.”
- “Ahh, beer…I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer!”
- “I detest he who hides one thing in his heart and means another.”
- “But, Marge, it takes two people to lie: one to lie, and one to listen.”
- “The man who acts the least, disrupts the most.”
- “It is better to watch things than to do them.”
- “A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”
- “Television–teacher, mother, secret lover!”
- “How mortals take the gods to task! Yet their afflictions come from us.”
- “I’m not normally a religious man, but if you’re up there, save me, Superman!”
