Top 500 Homer Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “A decent boldness ever meets with friends.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

353. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

360. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

363. “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

364. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

367. “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

368. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

371. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

386. “Three thousand years have not changed the human condition in this respect; we are still lovers and victims of the will to violence, and so long as we are, Homer will be read as its truest interpreter.”

— Homer

387. “In every sorrowing soul I pour’d delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.”

— Homer

388. “When you’re in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

390. “The best things beyond their measure cloy.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

392. “The heart in his rugged chest was pounding, torn.”

— Homer

393. “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

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

— Homer

395. “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

396. “If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

398. “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

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

— Homer

400. “It is not good to have a rule of many.”

— Homer