Homer

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

— Homer

No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.

— Homer

I long for home, long for the sight of home.

— Homer

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

— Homer

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

— Homer

“A man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

— Homer

We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!

— Homer

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

— Homer

We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.

— Homer

I have suffered much from waves and wars, and now let this trial join the rest.

— Homer

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

— Homer

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

— Homer

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

— Homer

Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although…

— Homer

All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks…

— Homer

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials…

— Homer

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

— Homer

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

— Homer

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

— Homer

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

— Homer

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my…

— Homer

“The creations of genius always seem like miracles, because they are, for the most part, created far out of the reach of…

— Homer

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect…

— Homer

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

— Homer

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!

— Homer

Oh, woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler fiend.

— Homer

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

— Homer

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

— Homer

“Did fate, or we, when great Atrides died, Urge the bold traitor to the regicide?”

— Homer

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

— Homer

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

— Homer

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

— Homer

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

— Homer