Homer Quotes
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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
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Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
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On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.
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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
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You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.
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Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw.
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The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
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Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
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Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.
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Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!
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But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.
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I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!
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Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
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Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!
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To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!
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These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.
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Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.