Homer Fighting Quotations

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

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

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

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

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

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!

It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

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.