Top 500 Homer Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

354. “One rogue leads another.”

— Homer

355. “A decent boldness ever meets with friends.”

— Homer

356. “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

357. “Sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing.”

— Homer

358. “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

359. “Homer no function beer well without.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

361. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

364. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

368. “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

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

— Homer

370. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

375. “Long exercised in woes.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

382. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

385. “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

386. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

390. “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

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

— Homer

392. “What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own wickedness that brings them sufferings worse than any which destiny allots them.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

395. “You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer