Top 500 Homer Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “And so the Trojans buried Hector, breaker of horses.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

453. “A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

455. “Content to follow when we lead the way.”

— Homer

456. “Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.”

— Homer

457. “Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

459. “Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.”

— Homer

460. “Do not mourn the dead with the belly.”

— Homer

461. “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

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

— Homer

463. “I live an idle burden to the ground.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

465. “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

466. “Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev’n to gods is misery.”

— Homer

467. “I’ve gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren’t just confined to zoos.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

472. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— 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. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

480. “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

481. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

484. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

487. “A royal robe he wore with graceful pride, A two-edged falchion threaten’d by his side, Embroider’d sandals glitter’d as he trod, And forth he moved, majestic as a god.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

489. “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

490. “Noblest minds are easiest bent.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

498. “Death submits to no one.”

— Homer

499. “Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.”

— Homer

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

— Homer