Homer Quotes

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

Immortals are never alien to one another.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

By turns the nine delight to sing

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!

Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

The force of union conquers all.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.