Homer

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

— Homer

In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men.

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— 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

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

And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.

— Homer

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

— Homer

“It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most.”

— Homer

“Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!”

— Homer

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

— Homer

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

— Homer

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

— Homer

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

— Homer

Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'

— Homer

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

— Homer

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

— Homer

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

— Homer

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

— Homer

“As the wind scatters leaves upon the earth, such is the race of men”

— Homer

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

— Homer

Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across…

— Homer

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

— Homer

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

— Homer

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

— 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

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

— Homer

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

— Homer

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

— Homer

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly…

— Homer

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

— Homer