Homer Quotes

The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.

There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.

I will paint for money any time.

Only think of my being alive with a reputation!

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

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

The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.

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.

I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.

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!

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

Trying is the first step to failure

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.

Trying is the first step towards failure

I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff… and I want in..

Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.

The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.

Time is really the only gift we receive from God that we can give to others.

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...

Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?

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.

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.

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

'Tis man's to fight but Heaven's to give success.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad.

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 satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired.

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.

Light is the task when many share the toil.

He held his seat a friend to human race.

Labor conquers all things.

Who dares think one thing and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted and who has many responsibilities.

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

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

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!

You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.