Top 500 Homer Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.”

— Homer

202. “Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.”

— Homer

203. “We have a great life here in Alaska, and we’re never going back to America again!”

— Homer

204. “I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man’s eyes than his own country.”

— Homer

205. “Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.”

— Homer

206. “There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.”

— Homer

207. “You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat – coward!”

— Homer

208. “When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn’t work.”

— Homer

209. “What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?”

— Homer

210. “Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman’s bottom? That’s right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.”

— Homer

211. “As I lay dying, the woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.”

— Homer

212. “Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?”

— Homer

213. “A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth – and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.”

— Homer

214. “One man is a splendid fighter – a god has made him so – one’s a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man’s chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.”

— Homer

215. “The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.”

— Homer

216. “Of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart.”

— Homer

217. “The internet wasn’t created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!”

— Homer

218. “He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.”

— Homer

219. “Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.”

— Homer

220. “Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings – their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.”

— Homer

221. “Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

223. “So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.”

— Homer

224. “The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One’s immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.”

— Homer

225. “Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.”

— Homer

226. “Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it taught me not to judge a man by the color of his skin but what good does that do me?”

— Homer

227. “Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.”

— Homer

228. “The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.”

— Homer

229. “The melancholy joys of evils pass’d, For he who much has suffer’d, much will know.”

— Homer

230. “For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.”

— Homer

231. “A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”

— Homer

232. “I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.”

— Homer

233. “We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn’t hear anybody laughing, did you?”

— Homer

234. “Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.”

— Homer

235. “A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.”

— Homer

236. “I’m like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?”

— Homer

237. “I’ll teach you to laugh at something that’s funny!”

— Homer

238. “I say no wealth is worth my life.”

— Homer

239. “The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.”

— Homer

240. “Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns, driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.”

— Homer

241. “And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.”

— Homer

242. “Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend – fudge.”

— Homer

243. “Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

245. “I won’t lie to you, fatherhood isn’t easy like motherhood.”

— Homer

246. “Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.”

— Homer

247. “Her gray eyes clear, the goddess Athena answered, “Down from the skies I come to check your rage if only you will yield.”

— Homer

248. “God help me, I’m just not that bright.”

— Homer

249. “Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell’d with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o’er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir’d, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.”

— Homer

250. “Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.”

— Homer