Quotes & Sayings About Hospitality In The Odyssey

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — W. H. Auden

It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It's when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level. — Monte Irvin

Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips. — Jack LaLanne

My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music. — Jim Foglesong

I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections."
"Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do. — Lisa Kleypas

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone? — Sextus Propertius

If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. — Stokely Carmichael

Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o' sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me. — Robert Burns

For string theory to make sense, the universe should have nine spacial dimensions and one time dimension, for a total of ten dimensions. — Brian Greene

Sin is a disproportionate seriousness. — Fulton J. Sheen

I don't weigh myself. — Seth Rogen

The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black. — Bix Beiderbecke