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A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

Ah, good ol’ trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

All men have need of the gods.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs

And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.

And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

And woe succeeds woe.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

A sound mind in a manly body.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.

A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.