Homer Quotes & Sayings

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors? — Homer

On with you, horse-taming Trojans! Never give Greeks best in your will to fight! They are not made of stone or iron. Their flesh can't keep out penetrating spears when they are hit. — Homer

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

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat - coward! — Homer

It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were too much for our belief. — Homer

L. 547. The terms made use of in this line, and in 481, may appear somewhat coarse, as addressed by one Goddess to another: but I assure the English reader that in this passage — Homer

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay! — Homer

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

By turns the nine delight to sing — Homer

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

As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades. — Homer

Do not mourn the dead with the belly. — Homer

And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house. — Homer

First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women. — Homer

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame. — Homer

The Simpsons are going to Delaware! — Homer

You don't win friends with salad. — Homer

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight. — Homer

Wine gives strength to weary men. — Homer

I don't know how much longer I can complain. — Homer

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. — Homer

We men are wretched things. — Homer

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. — Homer

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. — Homer

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life. — Homer

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace. — Homer

There will be killing till the score is paid. — Homer

Down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms — Homer

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. — Homer

Thou wilt lament
Hereafter, when the evil shall be done
And shall admit no cure. — Homer

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power — Homer

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing. — Homer

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

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another — Homer

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

What so tedious as a twice-told tale? — Homer

The windy satisfaction of the tongue. — Homer

Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement. — Homer

We are perpetually labouring to destroy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for us. My opinion is, that what is best for us is our admiration of good. — Homer

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor! — Homer

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak. — Homer

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

Singing is the lowest form of communication. — Homer

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

The evil plan is most harmful to the planner — Homer

He took a cable which had been service on a blue-bowed ship, made one end fast to a high column in the portico, and threw the other over the round-house, high up, so that their feet would not touch the ground. As when long-winged thrushes or doves get entangled in a snare ... so the women's heads were held fast in a row, with nooses round their necks, to bring them to the most pitiable end. For a little while their feet twitched, but not for very long. — Homer

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat! — Homer

For lo? my words no fancied woes relate; I speak from science and the voice of fate. — Homer

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. — Homer

I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men — Homer

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know. — Homer

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving. — Homer

By their own follies they perished, the fools. — Homer

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

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind! — Homer

What's out of sight, is out of mind — Homer

But the Achaian men went silently, breathing valor, stubbornly minded each in his heart to stand by the others. — Homer

A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. — Homer

See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead! — Homer

The force of union conquers all. — Homer

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame. — Homer

One man is a splendid fighter
a god has made him so
one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure. — Homer

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. — Homer

First she said we were to keep clear of the Sirens, who sit and sing most beautifully in a field of flowers; but she said I might hear them myself so long as no one else did. Therefore, take me and bind me to the crosspiece half way up the mast; bind me as I stand upright, with a bond so fast that I cannot possibly break away, and lash the rope's ends to the mast itself. If I beg and pray you to set me free, then bind me more tightly still. — Homer

Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears. — Homer

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

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

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight. — Homer

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them. — Homer

Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself
in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be
fair. — Homer

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

- so as the great Achilles rampaged on, his sharp-hoofed stallions
trampled shields and corpses, axle under his chariot splashed
with blood, blood on the handrails sweeping round the car,
sprays of blood shooting up from the stallions' hoofs
and churning, whirling rims - and the son of Peleus
charioteering on to seize his glory, bloody filth
splattering both strong arms, Achilles' invincible arms - — Homer

What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you. — Homer

For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces. — Homer

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. — Homer

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator. — Homer

Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out. — Homer

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. — Homer

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. — Homer

L. 151. Chthizos, yesterday. But either the word must have a more extended signification than is usually given to it, or Homer must here have fallen into an error; for two complete nights and one day, that on which Patroclus met his death, had intervened since the visit of Ajax and — Homer

Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow. — Homer

Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever. — Homer

But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of winter, and then no other mortal could in debate contend with Odysseus. Nor did we care any longer how he looked. — Homer

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

Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods. — Homer

I'm a rageaholic. I just can't live without rageahol. — Homer

The single best augury is to fight for one's country. — Homer

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

No trust is to be placed in women. — Homer

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame. — Homer

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic. — Homer

I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me! — Homer

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. — Homer

A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds ... it makes ice. — Homer

I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world. — Homer

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. — Homer

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite. — Homer

Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep ... in a giant blender. — Homer

I'm satisfied. It's straight, ... but it's just so hot, and I'm just so fraustrated. — Homer

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers. — Homer