Top 500 Homer Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Good things don’t end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.”

— Homer

252. “Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.”

— Homer

253. “Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.”

— Homer

254. “Better to flee from death than feel its grip.”

— Homer

255. “Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.”

— Homer

256. “Look at me! I’m a puffy pink cloud!”

— Homer

257. “Wine gives strength to weary men.”

— Homer

258. “Internet! Is that thing still around?”

— Homer

259. “My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.”

— Homer

260. “Short is my date, but deathless my renown.”

— Homer

261. “All my life I’ve been an obese man trapped inside a fat man’s body.”

— Homer

262. “The windy satisfaction of the tongue.”

— Homer

263. “Cattle and fat sheep can all be had for the raiding, tripods for the trading, and tawny headed stallions. But a mans’s lifebreath cannot come back again- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man’s clenched teeth.”

— Homer

264. “Never throw a butcher knife in anger.”

— Homer

265. “Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.”

— Homer

266. “And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart’s desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.”

— Homer

267. “I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man’s heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.”

— Homer

268. “All right, let’s not panic. I’ll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.”

— Homer

269. “Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power.”

— Homer

270. “Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.”

— Homer

271. “What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?”

— Homer

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

— Homer

273. “The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.”

— Homer

274. “The bitter dregs of Fortune’s cup to drain.”

— Homer

275. “Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.”

— Homer

276. “Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.”

— Homer

277. “Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.”

— Homer

278. “Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.”

— Homer

279. “My good friend, if, when we were once out of this fight, we could escape old age and death thenceforward and for ever, I should neither press forward myself nor bid you do so, but death in ten thousand shapes hangs ever over our heads, and no man can elude him; therefore let us go forward and either win glory for ourselves, or yield it to another.”

— Homer

280. “Perverse mankind! whose wills, created free, Charge all their woes on absolute degree; All to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall’d the crimes of fate.”

— Homer

281. “Ajax the great Himself a host.”

— Homer

282. “Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.”

— Homer

283. “To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.”

— Homer

284. “Two urns on Jove’s high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.”

— Homer

285. “You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don’t work out in real life, uh, Christianity.”

— Homer

286. “Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.”

— Homer

287. “Women are easy, state capitals are hard.”

— Homer

288. “Goddess,... do not be angry with me about this. I am quite aware that my wife Penelope is nothing like so tall or so beautiful as yourself. She is only a woman, whereas you are an immortal. Nevertheless, I want to get home, and can think of nothing else.”

— Homer

289. “Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.”

— Homer

290. “Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.”

— Homer

291. “Sensitive love letters are my specialty. ‘Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.’”

— Homer

292. “You can’t go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain’t ketchup!”

— Homer

293. “To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.”

— Homer

294. “Many are the birds who under the sun’s rays wander the sky; not all of them mean anything.”

— Homer

295. “Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other’s arms.”

— Homer

296. “Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.”

— Homer

297. “Young people are thoughtless as a rule.”

— Homer

298. “Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.”

— Homer

299. “She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.”

— Homer

300. “All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.”

— Homer