Top 500 Homer Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

352. “Homer no function beer well without.”

— Homer

353. “Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.”

— Homer

354. “Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must – just two as we are – if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.”

— Homer

355. “It was the gray sea that bore you and the towering rocks, so sheer the heart in you is turned from us.”

— Homer

356. “It’s not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.”

— Homer

357. “And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!”

— Homer

358. “Actually, I’ve been working on a plan. During the exam, I’ll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.”

— Homer

359. “Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw.”

— Homer

360. “Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given...”

— Homer

361. “The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!”

— Homer

362. “I can’t even say the word ‘titmouse’ without giggling like a schoolgirl.”

— Homer

363. “Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin.”

— Homer

364. “Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.”

— Homer

365. “The whims of youth break all the rules.”

— Homer

366. “It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff.”

— Homer

367. “It is hateful to me to tell a story over again, when it has been well told.”

— Homer

368. “The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.”

— Homer

369. “Telemachus hurled his arms round his father, and he wept. They both felt deep desire for lamentation, and wailed with cries as shrill as birds, like eagles or vultures, when the hunters have deprived them of fledglings who have not yet learned to fly. That was how bitterly they wept.”

— Homer

370. “Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.”

— Homer

371. “Rage – Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles.”

— Homer

372. “Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man’s worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.”

— Homer

373. “I’m a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.”

— Homer

374. “Long exercised in woes.”

— Homer

375. “Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.”

— Homer

376. “You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it’s not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?”

— Homer

377. “True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.”

— Homer

378. “It is not right to glory in the slain.”

— Homer

379. “There was a world... or was it all a dream?”

— Homer

380. “And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs.”

— Homer

381. “What so tedious as a twice-told tale?”

— Homer

382. “The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.”

— Homer

383. “Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.”

— Homer

384. “Nor can one word be chang’d but for a worse.”

— Homer

385. “All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove’s daughters, shuts men’s eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.”

— Homer

386. “To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.”

— Homer

387. “Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.”

— Homer

388. “I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.”

— Homer

389. “I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.”

— Homer

390. “There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.”

— Homer

391. “Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.”

— Homer

392. “Reproach is infinite, and knows no end.”

— Homer

393. “You must endure and not be broken-hearted.”

— Homer

394. “As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.”

— Homer

395. “Zeus does not bring all men’s plans to fulfillment.”

— Homer

396. “I’ve always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is – and it’s me.”

— Homer

397. “Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.”

— Homer

398. “Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.”

— Homer

399. “For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.”

— Homer

400. “The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”

— Homer