Homer Quotes

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts...

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you,...

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, h...

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glit...

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to ...

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hat...

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, ...

But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s...

—so as the great Achilles rampaged on, his sharp-hoofed stallions trampled shields and corpses, axle...

It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my he...

Reproach is infinite, and knows no endSo voluble a weapon is the tongue;Wounded, we wound; and neith...

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. F...

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

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...

Light is the task when many share the toil.

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

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

Far from gay cities and the way of men.

Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.

Too many kings can ruin an army

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make ...

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

Man is the vainest of allcreatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heavenvouchsafes him...

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...

Labor conquers all things.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight...

He held his seat a friend to human race.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...

Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

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

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted a...

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Who dares think one thing and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

'Tis man's to fight but Heaven's to give success.

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.

For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I...

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two...

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

What I say will be a bit of boasting. The mad wine tells me to do it. Wine sets even a thoughtful ma...

...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the slee...

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in...

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure…For already have I s...

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...

Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a sol...

But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own countr...

And empty words are evil.

The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy ...

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...

Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, ...

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lun...

…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the...

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red w...

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint ...