Homer Quotes
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Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.
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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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Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.
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Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.
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But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.
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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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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
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It is not right to exult over slain men.
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Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.
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It is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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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.
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Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
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For too much rest becomes a pain.
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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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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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And empty words are evil.
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By turns the nine delight to sing.
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What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
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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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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
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Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.