Top 500 Homer Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

— Homer

2. “Trying is the first step to failure.”

— Homer

3. “Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.”

— Homer

4. “Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”

— Homer

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5. “Have patience, heart.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

7. “And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.”

— Homer

8. “I want to be alone with my thought.”

— Homer

9. “A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.”

— Homer

10. “The journey is the thing.”

— Homer

11. “If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing.”

— Homer

12. “A small rock holds back a great wave.”

— Homer

13. “Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”

— Homer

14. “Over the wine-dark sea.”

— Homer

15. “My name is Nobody.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

17. “Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.”

— Homer

18. “If at first you don’t succeed, give up.”

— Homer

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19. “No matter how good you are at something, there’s always about a million people better than you.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

21. “A sound mind in a manly body.”

— Homer

22. “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.”

— Homer

23. “Boy, everyone is stupid except me.”

— Homer

24. “There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”

— Homer

25. “Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you – it’s born with us the day that we are born.”

— Homer

26. “I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl’d world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.”

— Homer

27. “Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.”

— Homer

28. “Everything flows and nothing stays.”

— Homer

29. “We men are wretched things.”

— Homer

30. “For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.”

— Homer

31. “In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!”

— Homer

32. “Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.”

— Homer

33. “No trust is to be placed in women.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

36. “Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.”

— Homer

37. “Light is the task where many share the toil.”

— Homer

38. “The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.”

— Homer

39. “I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim.”

— Homer

40. “Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.”

— Homer

41. “Don’t mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.”

— Homer

42. “The strong must protect the sweet.”

— Homer

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43. “A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.”

— Homer

44. “Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.”

— Homer

45. “The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

47. “A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.”

— Homer

48. “Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.”

— Homer

49. “Each man delights in the work that suits him best.”

— Homer

50. “Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”

— Homer