"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."

"Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus..."

"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."

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

"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder."

"Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help."

"He who binds to himself a joy, does the winged life destroy: But he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sun rise."

"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution."

"PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it."

"My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way."

"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest."

"The French are just useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery."