Homer Quotes
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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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Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.
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Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.
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I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
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I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.
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The strong must protect the sweet.
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Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
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Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
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Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!
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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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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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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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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.
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By turns the nine delight to sing.
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Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.
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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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Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.
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Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.
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And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.
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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
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As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.
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Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
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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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But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.