LIFE in Classic Quotes

1  My poor fellow, you shall not stay here grieving and fretting your life out any longer.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V

2  Periboea was the youngest daughter of Eurymedon, who at one time reigned over the giants, but he ruined his ill-fated people and lost his own life to boot.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII

3  Perhaps he is a vagabond sailor whom she has taken from some foreign vessel, for we have no neighbours; or some god has at last come down from heaven in answer to her prayers, and she is going to live with him all the rest of her life.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI

4  This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I

5  There fair-haired Rhadamanthus reigns, and men lead an easier life than any where else in the world, for in Elysium there falls not rain, nor hail, nor snow, but Oceanus breathes ever with a West wind that sings softly from the sea, and gives fresh life to all men.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV

6  Now, however, return home, and go about among the suitors; begin getting provisions ready for your voyage; see everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life, in leathern bags, while I go round the town and beat up volunteers at once.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK II