Homer Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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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And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.
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Down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms.
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Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.
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The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
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It is a wise child that knows his own father.
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I war not with the dead.
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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
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She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.
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Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.
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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made.
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
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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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Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.
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And empty words are evil.
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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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You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.
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Death submits to no one.