Top 500 Homer Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

404. “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

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

— Homer

406. “Long exercised in woes.”

— Homer

407. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

410. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

413. “Dreams are sent by God.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

421. “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

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

424. “The Simpsons are going to Delaware!”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

427. “Do not mourn the dead with the belly.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

432. “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

433. “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

434. “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

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

— Homer

436. “And so the Trojans buried Hector, breaker of horses.”

— Homer

437. “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

438. “I live an idle burden to the ground.”

— Homer

439. “Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.”

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

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

— Homer

443. “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

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

— Homer

445. “You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car!”

— Homer

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

— Homer

447. “A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.”

— Homer

448. “And woe succeeds woe.”

— Homer

449. “They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.”

— Homer

450. “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