Homer Quotes

And empty words are evil.

1720

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

1953

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

3645

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

2547

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at the top of his lungs,
laugh like a fool – it drives the
man to dancing... it even
tempts him to blurt out stories
better never told.

4251

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end
So voluble a weapon is the tongue;
Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail
For every man has equal strength to rail.

3985

Too many kings can ruin an army

2719

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

4156

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

1274

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

3437

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

1228

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat - coward!

1781

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one - so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim - the greater man.

3306

But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well - for your own son’s death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels - I’ve lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men -

4202

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

2476

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

3920

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

2274

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

2038

Im Frieden begraben die Söhne ihre Väter, im Krieg begraben Väter ihre Söhne.

3832

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.

2850

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.

4276

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.

4971

You, you insolent brazen bitch - you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

1694

For double are the portals of flickering dreams.
One set is made of horn, the other of ivory.
And as for those that come through the sawn ivory,
They deceive, carrying words that will not be fulfilled;
But those that pass on outside through the polished horn
Do fulfill the truth whenever any mortal sees them.

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