Homer Wise Quotations

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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

Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and Might to inspire new hopes and powerful To drown the bitterness of cares.

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

After the event, even a fool is wise.

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.