Homer Quotes

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

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

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.

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure…For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those.

—so as the great Achilles rampaged on, his sharp-hoofed stallions trampled shields and corpses, axle under his chariot splashed with blood, blood on the handrails sweeping round the car, sprays of blood shooting up from the stallions' hoofs and churning, whirling rims—and the son of Peleus charioteering on to seize his glory, bloody filth splattering both strong arms, Achilles' invincible arms—

The tongue of man is a twisty thing.

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.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.

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!

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

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

He held his seat a friend to human race.

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!