110+ Homer Quotes On Death, War And Marriage

Homer was an ancient Greek poet, best known for his two epic works, the Iliad and the Odyssey. He is believed to have lived sometime between the 8th and 9th century BC and is considered to be the earliest known Greek poet. He is renowned for his works, which have had a lasting influence on Western literature and culture. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Homer on love, death, war.

Top 10 Homer Quotes

1. Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
2. Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
3. Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
4. There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
5. Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
6. After the event, even a fool is wise.
7. 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.
8. A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
9. 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.
10. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Homer Image Quotes

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

After the event, even a fool is wise. — Homer

A decent boldness ever meets with friends. — Homer

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

Homer Short Quotes

• And empty words are evil.
• I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
• out of sight,out of mind
• Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
• Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
• I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.
• A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
• Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.
• Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'
• Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Homer Quotes About Love

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

There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. — Homer

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them. — Homer

Being popular is the most important thing in the world! — Homer

Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. — Homer

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. — Homer

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat! — Homer

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor — Homer

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told. — Homer

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance. — Homer

Homer Quotes About Death

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds. — Homer

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead. — Homer

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. — Homer

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward! — Homer

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth. — Homer

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. — Homer

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born. — Homer

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man. — Homer

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. — Homer

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death. — Homer

Homer Quotes About War

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

It is not right to exult over slain men. — Homer

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those. — Homer

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world. — Homer

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain. — Homer

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

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power — Homer

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. — Homer

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. — Homer

I war not with the dead. — Homer

Homer Quotes About Life

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life. — Homer

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

Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away. — Homer

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius — Homer

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. — Homer

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays. — Homer

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. — Homer

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body. — Homer

My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life. — Homer

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

Homer Quotes About Sea

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us. — Homer

She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft. — Homer

On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus. — Homer

Over the wine-dark sea. — Homer

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea. — Homer

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

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain. — Homer

Homer Quotes About Heart

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother — Homer

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

Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms. — Homer

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

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey. — Homer

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. — Homer

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

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things. — Homer

The hearts of great men can be changed. — Homer

Have patience, heart. — Homer

Homer Quotes About Friends

Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away. — Homer

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

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

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. — Homer

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing. — Homer

O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly. — Homer

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

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes — Homer

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. — Homer

And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes. — Homer

Homer Quotes About Thou

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

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak. — Homer

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

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

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

And would'st thou evil for his good repay? — Homer

Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut? — Homer

Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although we be but two. Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave. — Homer

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind. — Homer

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket — Homer

Homer Quotes About Glory

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. — Homer

It is not right to glory in the slain. — Homer

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

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. — Homer

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. — Homer

Homer Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

After the event, even a fool is wise. — Homer

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. — Homer

A decent boldness ever meets with friends. — Homer

Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties. — Homer

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled. — Homer

Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth! — Homer

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

And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house. — Homer

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate. — Homer

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! — Homer

In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men. — Homer

I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move. — Homer

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. — Homer

For too much rest becomes a pain. — Homer

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. — Homer

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

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

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

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos. — Homer

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. — Homer

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

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better. — Homer

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. — Homer

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. — Homer

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. — Homer

It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey. — Homer

down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms — Homer

I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me. — Homer

Light is the task where many share the toil. — Homer

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. — Homer

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood. — Homer

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands. — Homer

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

Each man delights in the work that suits him best. — Homer

Achilles absent was Achilles still! — Homer

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

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on — Homer

Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. — Homer

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

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. — Homer

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator. — Homer

The windy satisfaction of the tongue. — Homer

His descent was like nightfall. — Homer

The fates have given mankind a patient soul. — Homer

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

Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall — Homer

Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them. — Homer

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. — Homer

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. — Homer

How vain, without the merit, is the name. — Homer

Noblest minds are easiest bent. — Homer

I live an idle burden to the ground. — Homer

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

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

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. — Homer

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. — Homer

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body! — Homer

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers. — Homer

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

Singing is the lowest form of communication. — Homer

Trying is the first step toward failure. — Homer

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

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed. — Homer

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. — Homer

Life Lessons by Homer

1. Homer's works emphasize the importance of loyalty, courage, and perseverance in the face of adversity.
2. He also shows us the value of storytelling and the power of imagination to bring people together.
3. Finally, Homer's works serve as a reminder to always strive for excellence and to never give up in the pursuit of our goals.