Homer Quotes
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
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Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
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Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
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The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
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Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.
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Immortals are never alien to one another.
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I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.
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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.
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I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.
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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
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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.
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A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.
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Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
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No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
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A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
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So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.
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And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.
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…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
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Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.
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Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
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But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
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Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.