Homer Quotes

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff.

I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

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

Over the wine-dark sea.

If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

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

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

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.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

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.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

I'm a people person...who drinks.

My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.

A sound mind in a manly body.

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

Look at me! I'm a puffy pink cloud!

Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

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

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.

If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken!

Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.