Top 500 Homer Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

353. “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

354. “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

355. “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

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

— Homer

357. “Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

360. “How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

362. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

365. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

370. “Long exercised in woes.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

372. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

376. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

381. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

392. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

397. “We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.”

— Homer

398. “Her heart raced with joy to sleep with War.”

— Homer

399. “We are perpetually labouring to destroy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for us. My opinion is, that what is best for us is our admiration of good.”

— Homer

400. “And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E’en to the ashes of the just is kind.”

— Homer