Top 500 Homer Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

303. “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

304. “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

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

— Homer

306. “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

307. “She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

310. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

314. “My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.”

— Homer

315. “All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.”

— Homer

316. “I should rather labor as another’s serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.”

— Homer

317. “I’m in a place where I don’t know where I am!”

— Homer

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

— Homer

319. “The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

321. “Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster’s dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one’s garden.”

— Homer

322. “Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

324. “For of all creatures that breathe and creep about on the earth, there is none so miserable as man.”

— Homer

325. “My wife’s not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.”

— Homer

326. “There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.”

— Homer

327. “First you don’t want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!”

— Homer

328. “For love deceives the best of woman kind.”

— Homer

329. “I’ll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!”

— Homer

330. “Who ne’er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.”

— Homer

331. “If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.”

— Homer

332. “And what if one of the gods does wreck me out on the wine-dark sea? I have a heart that is inured to suffering and I shall steel it to endure that too. For in my day I have had many bitter and painful experiences in war and on the stormy seas. So let this new disaster come. It only makes one more.”

— Homer

333. “Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.”

— Homer

334. “Being popular is the most important thing in the world!”

— Homer

335. “I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men.”

— Homer

336. “The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.”

— Homer

337. “Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.”

— Homer

338. “Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.”

— Homer

339. “I don’t know how much longer I can complain.”

— Homer

340. “The God of War will see fair play-he’s often slain that wants to slay!”

— Homer

341. “Victory passes back and forth between men.”

— Homer

342. “Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.”

— Homer

343. “We’re goin bowling. If we don’t come back, avenge our deaths.”

— Homer

344. “You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.”

— Homer

345. “If it doesn’t have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.”

— Homer

346. “Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.”

— Homer

347. “For never, never, wicked man was wise.”

— Homer

348. “Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.”

— Homer

349. “One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.”

— Homer

350. “See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.”

— Homer