Homer Quotes

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.

Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

Forget the brother and resume the man.

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover.

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.

Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.

The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

We got a little rule back home: If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

Look at me! I'm a puffy pink cloud!

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end.

I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

By turns the nine delight to sing

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!