Homer Quotes
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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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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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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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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
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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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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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Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
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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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Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.
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Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
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Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
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Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
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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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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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I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.
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There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
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For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.
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The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.
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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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The best thing in the world is a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.
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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.