"The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears."

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Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”

Nicholas Murray Butler

#Eye Quotes #Fading Quotes #Ears Quotes

“Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.”
“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.”
“Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar,”
“People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A.â€”or America.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.”
“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.”
“Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.”
“Ask Osama bin Laden if he's better off now than he was four years ago.”

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