Homer Quotations

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

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.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

My friend should honor him who honors me.

Most students, by the time they've been here for a year or two, figure out that you get an awful lot from a job, and no matter how affluent your family is, you still need a few things to put on your resume before you graduate,

When your design stinks, Engineering 101 says admit your mistakes and go back to the drawing board,

Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak

We really abide by the federal guidelines that students' work-study jobs should be meaningful, worthwhile positions for them from an academic perspective, ... We've never really felt that dining hall jobs have served them in an academic way.

Internet! Is that thing still around?

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.

We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!

Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut tree.

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.

Hey, what's the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn't God everywhere?

Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

I don't want to look like a weirdo. I'll just go with the muumuu.

If at first you don't succeed, give up.

I'm not gay, but I'll learn...

We'll see the second half what we can do, ... We have the talent; it's using it the entire match.

There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting thier friends.

We ask that (employees) take care of your personal business as needed. Should you require more time for your family,

A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly.

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

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

Homer no function beer well without.

If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.

Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.

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

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

Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.

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.

So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

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.

Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

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.

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

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.

Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.

And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end.

Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.

Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me.

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

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

The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.

One rogue leads another.

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

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.

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

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

We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths.

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.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.