WORLD in Classic Quotes

1  I doubt not that he too lifts his hands in prayer, for man cannot live without God in the world.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK III

2  Now Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians, who are at the world's end, and lie in two halves, the one looking West and the other East.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I

3  As for your own end, Menelaus, you shall not die in Argos, but the gods will take you to the Elysian plain, which is at the ends of the world.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV

4  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

5  This is the kind of disparaging remark that would be made about me, and I could not complain, for I should myself be scandalised at seeing any other girl do the like, and go about with men in spite of everybody, while her father and mother were still alive, and without having been married in the face of all the world.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VI

6  Polybus lived in Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world; he gave Menelaus two baths, both of pure silver, two tripods, and ten talents of gold; besides all this, his wife gave Helen some beautiful presents, to wit, a golden distaff, and a silver work box that ran on wheels, with a gold band round the top of it.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV