Homer Quotes

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

~ Homer

Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever.

~ Homer

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

~ Homer

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.

~ Homer

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.

~ Homer

What I say will be a bit of boasting. The mad wine tells me to do it. Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

~ Homer

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

~ Homer

The hearts of great men can be changed.

~ Homer

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

~ Homer

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

~ Homer

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

~ Homer

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

~ Homer

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

~ Homer

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

~ Homer

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

~ Homer

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

~ Homer

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

~ Homer

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

~ Homer

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.

~ Homer

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

~ Homer

It is not good to have a rule of many.

~ Homer

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

~ Homer