Top 500 Homer Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

103. “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

104. “Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”

— Homer

105. “We got a little rule back home: If it’s brown, drink it down. If it’s black, send it back.”

— Homer

106. “It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.”

— Homer

107. “Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.”

— Homer

108. “Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.”

— Homer

109. “Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.”

— Homer

110. “Too many kings can ruin an army.”

— Homer

111. “The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.”

— Homer

112. “The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.”

— Homer

113. “A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.”

— Homer

114. “After the event, even a fool is wise.”

— Homer

115. “Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.”

— Homer

116. “I’m not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.”

— Homer

117. “Be generous in the bedroom. Share your sandwich.”

— Homer

118. “The fates have given mankind a patient soul.”

— Homer

119. “It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.”

— Homer

120. “How vain, without the merit, is the name.”

— Homer

121. “No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.”

— Homer

122. “His descent was like nightfall.”

— Homer

123. “Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?”

— Homer

124. “Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”

— Homer

125. “Pffft, English. Who needs that? I’m never going to England.”

— Homer

126. “Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.”

— Homer

127. “I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.”

— Homer

128. “To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don’t have to do squat!”

— Homer

129. “Rock stars, is there anything they don’t know?”

— Homer

130. “Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.”

— Homer

131. “The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.”

— Homer

132. “Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on.”

— Homer

133. “The single best augury is to fight for one’s country.”

— Homer

134. “It’s disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.”

— Homer

135. “Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.”

— Homer

136. “Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide.”

— Homer

137. “Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.”

— Homer

138. “Even a fool may be wise after the event.”

— Homer

139. “For too much rest becomes a pain.”

— Homer

140. “I war not with the dead.”

— Homer

141. “Because they’re stupid, that’s why. That’s why everybody does everything.”

— Homer

142. “Life is largely a matter of expectation.”

— Homer

143. “From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover.”

— Homer

144. “Guns aren’t toys! They’re for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!”

— Homer

145. “Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.”

— Homer

146. “Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.”

— Homer

147. “All men owe honor to the poets – honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.”

— Homer

148. “All men have need of the gods.”

— Homer

149. “It’s about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!”

— Homer

150. “I want answers now or I want them eventually!”

— Homer