Homer Quotes
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Young people are thoughtless as a rule.
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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.
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Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.
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I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.
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Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
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Trying is the first step toward failure.
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The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
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The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
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Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
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There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
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Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
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Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
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There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
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Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?
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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.
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How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
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The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
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Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall.
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...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
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Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.