All Homer Quotes
- Each man delights in the work that suits him best. Best
- Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly. Clearly
- Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see… Arrow
- Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Achaeans
- Immortals are never alien to one another. Alien
- Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile Beguile
- Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide Far
- All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways… All
- Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. Age
- Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death… Achaeans
- ...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep. Band
- For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./… Alive
- Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? Gods
- some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind God
- down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms Blooms
- [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… Alcohol
- And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even… Age
- Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his… Abyss
- I say no wealth is worth my life. Funny
- Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. Among
- Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned… Bring
- Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable Achilles
- I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind,… All
- My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius All
- No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward,… Been