Homer Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Homer quotes, Homer sayings, and Homer proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Noblest minds are easiest bent. Homer
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. Homer
Be generous in the bedroom. Share your sandwich. Homer
A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. Homer
The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. Homer
Too many kings can ruin an army Homer
Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. Homer
Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement. Homer
Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. Homer
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. Homer
The force of union conquers all. Homer
The rule of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king. Homer
I didn’t lie! I just created fiction with my mouth! Homer
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. Homer
Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power. Homer
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. Homer
Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. Homer
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. Homer
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye, keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. Homer
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing. Homer
Tell me, muse, of the of many resources who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes. Homer
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye, keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth! Homer
Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them. Homer
Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one. Homer
Waiting is as resistant to description and analysis as time or boredom. Homer
Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea. Homer
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. Homer
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer