Homer Quotes (155 Quotes)

It's bad now, quite honestly, but it's getting to a point where we can make a difference.

She (Helen) threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

Over the wine-dark sea.

Rosy-fingered dawn.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

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

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

He went off without a word along the shore of the sounding sea.

One omen is best, to fight in defense of ones country.

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

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,

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

Part of himself the immortal mind remains.

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

'T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.

It is a prominent corner that draws a lot of attention to the project, ... They wanted something that was dynamic and something that would make a significant statement but would not block traffic. They also looked at how the artwork would marry with the architecture throughout and work aesthetically with the project.

Oh, woman, woman When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler fiend

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

To labour is the lot of man below And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

There was one on Kentucky Avenue that sunk so much that a lady couldn't even get out of her driveway.

Far and near friends knew this house for he whose home it was had much acquaintance in the world.

Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

It's incumbent upon us to provide a swimming pool, ... I've listened to this community complain there is nothing to do here.

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

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

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.

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

Forgetful youth but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love Wide as his will, extends his boundless grace.

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

And would'st thou evil for his good repay.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

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

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

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

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

The wine-dark sea.

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

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Winged words.

I war not with the dead.

They (the developers) are very serious about what they want to do and will keep options open, ... If they are not satisfied with the proposals from the competition, they will look for others.

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

Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess sing.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen

My friend should honor him who honors me.