Top 500 Homer Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Life is largely a matter of expectation.”

— Homer

152. “I war not with the dead.”

— Homer

153. “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

154. “I’m a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.”

— Homer

155. “Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

158. “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

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

— Homer

160. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

166. “The force of union conquers all.”

— Homer

167. “No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

172. “We all scribble poetry.”

— Homer

173. “As on the sacred threshing floor wind blows the chaff, while men stand winnowing the crop, when Demeter, with her golden hair, separates the grain from the chaff in the rushing breeze, and piles of chaff grow whiter, so then Achaean troops grew white, covered with dust stirred up by horses hooves.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

175. “Rage – Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles.”

— Homer

176. “Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

184. “Do I know what rhetorical means?”

— Homer

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

— Homer

186. “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

187. “But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of winter, and then no other mortal could in debate contend with Odysseus. Nor did we care any longer how he looked.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

189. “The child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared.”

— Homer

190. “Your arrows for my tears.”

— Homer

191. “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

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

— Homer

193. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

196. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer