Top 500 Homer Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

115. “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

116. “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

117. “His descent was like nightfall.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

119. “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

120. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

123. “You don’t win friends with salad.”

— Homer

124. “The lot of man-to suffer and die.”

— Homer

125. “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

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

— Homer

127. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

133. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

136. “I war not with the dead.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

138. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

142. “Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?”

— Homer

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

— Homer

144. “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

145. “All men have need of the gods.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

147. “Rather I’d choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.”

— Homer

148. “A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you’d step over your own mother just to get one!”

— Homer

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

— Homer

150. “The race of men is like the race of leaves. As one generation flourishes, another decays.”

— Homer