Homer Quotes
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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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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
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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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…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
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When a woman says nothing's wrong, that means everything's wrong. And when a woman says everything's wrong, that means everything's wrong! And when a woman says something's not funny, you'd better not laugh your ass off!
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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 flows and nothing stays.
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This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!
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Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
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And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs.
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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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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.
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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
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But it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.
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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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Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.
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Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
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And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
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If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.
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Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.