Quotes by Homer
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War is men's business; and this war is the business of every man in Ilium, myself above all.

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

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

To you, sedition, violence and fighting are the breath of life. What if you are a great soldier -- who made you so but God?

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken!

The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

All men owe honor to the poets -- honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold;

Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,

Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,

Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on.

Prophet of evil,' he cried, 'never have you said a word to my advantage. It is always trouble that you revel in foretelling.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

The journey is its own reward.

For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his share of the rite, he will not have the same lot as the others, once he is dead and dwells in the mould where the sun goes down.

Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!

If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

Both were gods of the same line, a single father, but Zeus was the elder-born and Zeus knew more.

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

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

Be still, my heart; thou hast known worse than this. On that day when the cyclops, unrestrained in fury, devoured the mighty men of my company; but still thou didst endure till thy craft found a way for thee forth from out the cave, where thou thoughtest to die.

My hour at last has come;

Yet not ingloriously or passively

I die, but first will do some valiant deed,

Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

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

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!

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.

He had better beware our wrath, great man though he is. What is he doing in his fury but insulting senseless clay?

Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.

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

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

But age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed

ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!

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

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come.

I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

We got a little rule back home: If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

The best thing in the world is a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.

Praise me not too much,

Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks

Who know me.

Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Fear not, but be bold:
A decent boldness ever meets with friends,
succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends.

Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

When a woman says nothing's wrong, that means everything's wrong. And when a woman says everything's wrong, that means everything's wrong! And when a woman says something's not funny, you'd better not laugh your ass off!

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

Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow.

Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

All men have need of the gods.

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

When I was seventeen

I drank some very good beer

I drank some very good beer I purchased

With a fake ID

My name was Brian McGee

I stayed up listening to Queen

When I was seventeen.

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.

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.

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

Have patience, heart.

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

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

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

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end.