Top 500 Homer Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The force of union conquers all.”

— Homer

152. “All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.”

— Homer

153. “A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.”

— Homer

154. “He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.”

— Homer

155. “We all scribble poetry.”

— Homer

156. “If something rude of any kind was said, let the winds take it.”

— Homer

157. “If God didn’t want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?”

— Homer

158. “Singing is the lowest form of communication.”

— Homer

159. “We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what’s the cure? We cannot find a thing.”

— Homer

160. “I don’t want to look like a weirdo. I’ll just go with the muumuu.”

— Homer

161. “It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.”

— Homer

162. “And now I’m using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.”

— Homer

163. “Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.”

— Homer

164. “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

— Homer

165. “A companion’s words of persuasion are effective.”

— Homer

166. “A man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

— Homer

167. “The hearts of great men can be changed.”

— Homer

168. “Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.”

— Homer

169. “Do I know what rhetorical means?”

— Homer

170. “Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.”

— Homer

171. “It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one’s house enriched and one’s authority enhanced.”

— Homer

172. “Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.”

— Homer

173. “No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”

— Homer

174. “Then in anger divine Aphrodite addressed her: “Do not provoke me, wicked girl, lest I drop you in anger, and hate you as much as I now terribly love you, and devise painful hostilities, and you are caught in the middle of both, Trojans and Danaans, and are destroyed by an evil fate.” So she spoke; and Helen born of Zeus was frightened; and.”

— Homer

175. “Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess – so she strikes our eyes!”

— Homer

176. “Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.”

— Homer

177. “I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.”

— Homer

178. “It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.”

— Homer

179. “Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.”

— Homer

180. “Better to be the poor servant of a poor master.”

— Homer

181. “The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him.”

— Homer

182. “Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.”

— Homer

183. “I would rather be a serf in a poor man’s house and be above ground than reign among the dead.”

— Homer

184. “On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you’ll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.”

— Homer

185. “I didn’t lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”

— Homer

186. “Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.”

— Homer

187. “Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.”

— Homer

188. “Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.”

— Homer

189. “Without TV, it’s hard to know when one day ends and another begins.”

— Homer

190. “There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband’s murder.”

— Homer

191. “I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.”

— Homer

192. “The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.”

— Homer

193. “By mutual confidence and mutual aid – great deeds are done, and great discoveries made.”

— Homer

194. “Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”

— Homer

195. “Just once I’d like someone to call me ‘Sir’ without adding ‘You’re making a scene.’”

— Homer

196. “For nothing could be better than when two live in one house, their minds in harmony, husband and wife. Their enemies are jealous, their friends delighted, and they have great honor.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

198. “There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.”

— Homer

199. “O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.”

— Homer

200. “But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.”

— Homer