Homer Quotes
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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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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.
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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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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
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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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If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.
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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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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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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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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
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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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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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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
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I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.
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Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.
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A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
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Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
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The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
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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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Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.