Top 500 Homer Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.”

— Homer

402. “As on the sacred threshing floor wind blows the chaff, while men stand winnowing the crop, when Demeter, with her golden hair, separates the grain from the chaff in the rushing breeze, and piles of chaff grow whiter, so then Achaean troops grew white, covered with dust stirred up by horses hooves.”

— Homer

403. “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

404. “Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

411. “And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

413. “Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.”

— Homer

414. “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

415. “Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.”

— Homer

416. “Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one – so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim – the greater man.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

418. “I’ve finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!”

— Homer

419. “The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.”

— Homer

420. “Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

422. “Weapons themselves can tempt a man to fight.”

— Homer

423. “To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress’d, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless’d.”

— Homer

424. “It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.”

— Homer

425. “Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.”

— Homer

426. “The spearhead sliced right through to the flesh, And when Diomedes pulled it out, Ares yelled, so loud you would have thought Ten thousand warriors had shouted at once, And the sound reverberated in the guts of Greeks and Trojans, As if Diomedes had struck not a god in armor But a bronze gong nine miles high.”

— Homer

427. “Dreams are sent by God.”

— Homer

428. “The gods are hard to handle – when they come blazing forth in their true power.”

— Homer

429. “We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.”

— Homer

430. “By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.”

— Homer

431. “The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.”

— Homer

432. “Old people don’t need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.”

— Homer

433. “Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.”

— Homer

434. “It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.”

— Homer

435. “It’s man’s to fight, but heaven’s to give success.”

— Homer

436. “The Wrath of Achilles is my theme, that fatal wrath which, in fulfillment of the will of Zeus, brought the Achaeans so much suffering and sent the gallant souls of many nobleman to Hades, leaving their bodies as carrion for the dogs and passing birds.”

— Homer

437. “The Simpsons are going to Delaware!”

— Homer

438. “Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.”

— Homer

439. “I am going to stand against him now, though his hands are like flame, though his hands are like flame, and his heart like the shining of iron.”

— Homer

440. “Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.”

— Homer

441. “There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.”

— Homer

442. “Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.”

— Homer

443. “Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev’n to gods is misery.”

— Homer

444. “But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.”

— Homer

445. “Content to follow when we lead the way.”

— Homer

446. “Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.”

— Homer

447. “Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.”

— Homer

448. “I’ve gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren’t just confined to zoos.”

— Homer

449. “Union Rule 26: Every employee must win ‘Worker of the Week’ at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.”

— Homer

450. “Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth.”

— Homer