Homer Quotes
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
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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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If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.
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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.
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And empty words are evil.
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If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.
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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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Tomorrow we embark upon the boundless sea.
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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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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!
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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
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It is not right to exult over slain men.
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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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The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.
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The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
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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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To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
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The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.
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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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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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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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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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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!