Homer Quotes

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Over the wine-dark sea.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.

I long for home, long for the sight of home.

Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

There will be killing till the score is paid.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

His descent was like nightfall.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

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!

Singing is the lowest form of communication.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Too many kings can ruin an army

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!

Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth.