Homer Quotes
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To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!
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Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.
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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.
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Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.
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No trust is to be placed in women.
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By turns the nine delight to sing.
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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
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One rogue leads another.
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All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.
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To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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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.
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It is a wise child that knows his own father.
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
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Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.
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In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
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Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although we be but two. Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave.
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Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.
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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!
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The strong must protect the sweet.
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She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.