Top 500 Homer Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

154. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

158. “The force of union conquers all.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

160. “We all scribble poetry.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

172. “Do I know what rhetorical means?”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

175. “We men are wretched things, and the gods, who have no cares themselves, have woven sorrow into the very pattern of our lives... Zeus the Thunderer has two jars standing on the floor of his palace, in which he keeps his gifts, the evils in one and the blessings in the other.”

— Homer

176. “By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man – some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive – than rule down here over all the breathless dead.”

— Homer

177. “Your arrows for my tears.”

— Homer

178. “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

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

— Homer

180. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

183. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

190. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

193. “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

194. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

200. “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