Hyperbole for 1000, Alex

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!”

From Plato:

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
“Ignorance: the root of all evil.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”

(HT:  Laura at Pursuing Holiness)