Top 500 Homer Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Achilles absent was Achilles still!”

— Homer

52. “If you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.”

— Homer

53. “The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.”

— Homer

54. “The strong must protect the sweet.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

57. “A gun is not a weapon! It’s a tool, like a butcher’s knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.”

— Homer

58. “Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.”

— Homer

59. “To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.”

— Homer

60. “The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.”

— Homer

61. “The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it’s time to fight.”

— Homer

62. “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”

— Homer

63. “Immortals are never alien to one another.”

— Homer

64. “By their own follies they perished, the fools.”

— Homer

65. “His native home deep imag’d in his soul.”

— Homer

66. “First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.”

— Homer

67. “Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.”

— Homer

68. “By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember.”

— Homer

69. “When a woman says nothing’s wrong, that means everything’s wrong. And when a woman says everything’s wrong, that means everything’s wrong! And when a woman says something’s not funny, you’d better not laugh your ass off!”

— Homer

70. “Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.”

— Homer

71. “I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.”

— Homer

72. “The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.”

— Homer

73. “Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.”

— Homer

74. “There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

— Homer

75. “Oh, look at me! I’m making people happy! I’m the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.”

— Homer

76. “Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.”

— Homer

77. “If you’re gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I’ll just have to stop doing stupid things.”

— Homer

78. “If you don’t like your job, you don’t strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That’s the American way.”

— Homer

79. “The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.”

— Homer

80. “Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.”

— Homer

81. “Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow.”

— Homer

82. “They have the Internet on computers now?”

— Homer

83. “Money can be exchanged for goods and services!”

— Homer

84. “Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.”

— Homer

85. “There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.”

— Homer

86. “Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.”

— Homer

87. “You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.”

— Homer

88. “Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.”

— Homer

89. “Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.”

— Homer

90. “There will be killing till the score is paid.”

— Homer

91. “A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.”

— Homer

92. “Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.”

— Homer

93. “And empty words are evil.”

— Homer

94. “Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.”

— Homer

95. “Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you in the field where men win fame. But now, as it is, the fates of death await us, thousands poised to strike, and not a man alive can flee them or escape – so in we go for attack! Give our enemy glory or win it for ourselves!”

— Homer

96. “From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.”

— Homer

97. “Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.”

— Homer

98. “It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.”

— Homer

99. “Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.”

— Homer

100. “Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year’s leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.”

— Homer