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Definition of Homer

Homer

A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

See Hoemother.

A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.

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Homer Quotations

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley

I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.
Meg White

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
Chaim Potok

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
Robert Redford

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
Robert Fitzgerald

One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
Dan Castellaneta

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
Peter O'Toole

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
Dan Castellaneta

I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
Dan Castellaneta

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
Robert Fitzgerald

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.
Robert Fitzgerald

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
Robert Fitzgerald

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
Robert Fitzgerald

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
Edward Said

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Lactantius

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
Michelangelo Antonioni

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
Dan Castellaneta

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
Uwe Boll

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
Robert Fitzgerald

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
Charles Olson

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
George Herman

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
George Herman

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
Johann G. Hamann

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
John B. S. Haldane

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.
Bobby Thomson

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
William Scott

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
Charles Peguy

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Homer in Dutch is Homerus

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