Homer Quotes

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

I war not with the dead.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

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

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.

Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

Wine gives strength to weary men.

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.

Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.

Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.

I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T ... Uh, I mean S-M-A-R-T.

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

I want answers now or I want them eventually!