Homer Quotes
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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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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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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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I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!
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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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Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.
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But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
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Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.
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It is a wise child that knows his own father.
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A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
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Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.
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For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
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I war not with the dead.
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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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One rogue leads another.
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Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.
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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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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made.
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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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You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
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Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.