Homer Quotes
The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.
Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!
I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.
Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.
