Top 500 Homer Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

458. “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

459. “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

460. “Old people don’t need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

462. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

465. “Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

472. “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

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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

478. “And they die an equal death – the idler and the man of mighty deeds.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

481. “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

482. “Noblest minds are easiest bent.”

— Homer

483. “Death submits to no one.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

486. “Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.”

— Homer

487. “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

488. “There was a world... or was it all a dream?”

— Homer

489. “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

490. “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

491. “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

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

— Homer

493. “But you can’t stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!”

— Homer

494. “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

495. “I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.”

— Homer

496. “If they think I’m going to stop at that stop sign, they’re mistaken!”

— Homer

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

— Homer

498. “Hey, what’s the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn’t God everywhere?”

— Homer

499. “And not a man appears to tell their fate.”

— Homer

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

— Homer