Homer Quotes
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I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.
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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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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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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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Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.
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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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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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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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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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Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
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Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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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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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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When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.
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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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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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Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
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I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.
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Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.
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Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
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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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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.