As learnèd commentators viewIn Homer more than Homer knew.
– Jonathan Swift
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- When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people. – Mahrukh
- He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings. – Homer
- The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver’s watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting. – Jonathan Swift
- Books, the children of the brain. – Jonathan Swift
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. – Jonathan Swift
- If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time. – Jonathan Swift
- Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift
- Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical. – Jonathan Swift
- Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself. – WB Yeats
- He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. – Jonathan Swift
- Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift
- Every dog must have his day. – Jonathan Swift
- When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. – Jonathan Swift
- I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. – Jonathan Swift
- I remember my own childhood vividly…I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them – Maurice Sendak
- And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life. – Graham Swift
- The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination. – Homer W Smith
- You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation. – Homer Rice
- I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better. – Homer
- Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin – Homer
- Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess– so she strikes our eyes! – Homer
- Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. – Homer
- You, you insolent brazen bitch-”you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face? – Homer
- The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is. – Homer Hickam
- Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald. – Harold Holzer
- After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? – Dejan Stojanovic
- And empty words are evil. – Homer
- I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn’t hard when I had a reason to want to know it. – Homer Hickam
- but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away – Homer
- Trying is the first step to failure – Homer Simpson
- For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one. – Homer
- I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff-¦ and I want in.. – Homer Simpson
- …like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. – Homer
- The tongue of man is a twisty thing. – Homer
- Time is really the only gift we receive from God that we can give to others. – Homer Hickam
- There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. – Homer
- …an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself… – Homer
- Why don’t those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks? – Homer Simpson
- He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him. – Jonathan Safran Foer
- She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her. – Gemma Malley