Homer Quotes (155 Quotes)

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

How God ever brings like to like.

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.

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

Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground Another race the following spring supplies They fall successive, and successive rise.

As the generation of leaves, so is that of men.

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.

For too much rest becomes a pain.

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

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

Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

I have suffered much from waves and wars, and now let this trial join the rest.

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

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

Too much rest itself becomes a pain.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind

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

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain And twins even from the birth are Misery and Man.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

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

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.

To him who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.

The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.

For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Self-taught I sing by Heaven, and Heaven alone, The genuine seeds of poesy are sown.

For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

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

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.

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

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

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise, Such men as live in these degenerate days.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

They would eat its blossoms and stalks in the spring, ... And use its fiber to make rabbit nets, sandals and mats.

It (revenge) is sweeter far than flowing honey.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

All strangers and beggars are from God, And a gift, though small, is precious.

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made