Top 500 Homer Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Modesty is of no use to a beggar.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

256. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

259. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

262. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

266. “Good things don’t end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.”

— Homer

267. “In The Odyssey, we find instead the story of a man whose grand adventure is simply to go back to his own home, where he tries to turn everything back to the way it was before he went away. For this hero, mere survival is the most amazing feat of all.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

269. “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

270. “Wine gives strength to weary men.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

273. “Grief wrapped around her, eating at her heart. The house was full of chairs but she could not bear to sit upright.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

276. “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

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

— Homer

278. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

285. “The windy satisfaction of the tongue.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

287. “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

288. “Ajax the great Himself a host.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

290. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

293. “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

294. “The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

296. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer