Top 500 Homer Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “I’ve gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren’t just confined to zoos.”

— Homer

452. “Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth.”

— Homer

453. “Odysseus is a migrant, but he is also a political and military leader, a strategist, a poet, a loving husband and father, an adulterer, a homeless person, an athlete, a disabled cripple, a soldier with a traumatic past, a pirate, thief and liar, a fugitive, a colonial invader, a home owner, a sailor, a construction worker, a mass murderer, and a war hero.”

— Homer

454. “The Wrath of Achilles is my theme, that fatal wrath which, in fulfillment of the will of Zeus, brought the Achaeans so much suffering and sent the gallant souls of many nobleman to Hades, leaving their bodies as carrion for the dogs and passing birds.”

— Homer

455. “And woe succeeds woe.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

457. “They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.”

— Homer

458. “Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

461. “So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace – neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.”

— Homer

462. “But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.”

— Homer

463. “You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car!”

— Homer

464. “Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.”

— Homer

465. “But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.”

— Homer

466. “Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.”

— Homer

467. “Union Rule 26: Every employee must win ‘Worker of the Week’ at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.”

— Homer

468. “A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.”

— Homer

469. “The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.”

— Homer

470. “Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.”

— Homer

471. “She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.”

— Homer

472. “There is a strength in the even of very sorry men.”

— Homer

473. “I long for home, long for the sight of home.”

— Homer

474. “We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.”

— Homer

475. “Nobody gets into heaven without a glowstick.”

— Homer

476. “It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.”

— Homer

477. “This year I invested in pumpkins. They’ve been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they’re going to peak right around January. Then bang! That’s when I’ll cash in.”

— Homer

478. “For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.”

— Homer

479. “It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most. Homer, Socrates, and Shakespere have, perhaps, contributed more to the intellectual enlightenment of mankind than any other three writers who could be named, and yet the history of all three has given rise to a boundless ocean of discussion, which has left us little save the option of choosing which theory or theories we will follow.”

— Homer

480. “It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.”

— Homer

481. “Blame the guy who doesn’t speak Engish.”

— Homer

482. “It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

484. “Of all the creatures that breathe and creep about on Mother Earth there is none so helpless as man. As long as the gods grant him prosperity and health he imagines he will never suffer misfortune in the future. Yet when the blessed gods bring him troubles he has no choice but to endure them with a patient heart. The reason is that the view we mortals take of this earthly life depends on what Zeus, the Father of gods and men, sends us day by day.”

— Homer

485. “Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his share of the rite, he will not have the same lot as the others, once he is dead and dwells in the mould where the sun goes down.”

— Homer

486. “It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.”

— Homer

487. “Noblest minds are easiest bent.”

— Homer

488. “For lo? my words no fancied woes relate; I speak from science and the voice of fate.”

— Homer

489. “The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.”

— Homer

490. “Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.”

— Homer

491. “Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille’s heel, if you will.”

— Homer

492. “Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.”

— Homer

493. “If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.”

— Homer

494. “Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”

— Homer

495. “Death submits to no one.”

— Homer

496. “Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.”

— Homer

497. “For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.”

— Homer

498. “The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.”

— Homer

499. “Oh, mother! since thy son To early death by destiny is doom’d, I might have hop’d the Thunderer on high, Olympian Jove, with honour would have crown’d My little space; but now disgrace is mine; Since Agamemnon, the wide-ruling King, Hath wrested from me, and still holds, my prize.” Weeping, he spoke; his Goddess-mother heard, Beside her aged father where she sat In the deep ocean-caves: ascending quick Through the dark waves, like to a misty cloud, Beside her son she stood; and as he wept, She.”

— Homer

500. “Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness – she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.”

— Homer