Top 500 Homer Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Just once I’d like someone to call me ‘Sir’ without adding ‘You’re making a scene.’”

— Homer

202. “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

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

— Homer

204. “Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

207. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

210. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

215. “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

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

— Homer

217. “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

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

— Homer

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

223. “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

224. “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

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

— Homer

226. “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

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

— Homer

228. “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

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

— Homer

230. “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

231. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

235. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

239. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

242. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

245. “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

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

— Homer

247. “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

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

— Homer

249. “It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.”

— Homer

250. “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