Homer

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

— Homer

“Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried…

— Homer

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

— Homer

“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us…

— Homer

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth,…

— Homer

“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know,…

— Homer

Boy, everyone is stupid except me.

— Homer

“With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he…

— Homer

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

— Homer

Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

— Homer

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

— Homer

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

— Homer

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

— Homer

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed…

— Homer

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

— Homer

There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the…

— Homer

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

— 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

In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane.

— Homer

And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles'…

— Homer

The long historian of my country's woes.

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer