Top 523 Quotes & Sayings by Homer - Page 2

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

The journey is the thing.

Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!

Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

And empty words are evil.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing.

Too many kings can ruin an army

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

For too much rest becomes a pain.

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

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

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

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

Everything flows and nothing stays.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.

Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

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

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

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.

It is not right to glory in the slain

What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.

If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.

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

Immortals are never alien to one another.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.

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

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

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

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

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

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

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.