Homer Quotes

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

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.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

And empty words are evil.

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

It is how you show up at the showdown that counts.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

out of sight,out of mind

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men.

I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.