Homer Inspirational Quotes

Long exercised in woes.

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

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

Too many kings can ruin an army

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

It is not right to glory in the slain

Death submits to no one.

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.

Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

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!

Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

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.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

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

Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.

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.

I'll teach you to laugh at something that's funny!

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

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

Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

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

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.

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

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

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

Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.

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

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.

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

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

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

Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

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

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

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

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.

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

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

The force of union conquers all.

And empty words are evil.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

The journey is the thing.

I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.

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

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

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

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

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

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

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

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

For too much rest becomes a pain.

If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

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.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

out of sight,out of mind

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

Immortals are never alien to one another.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

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

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

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

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

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!

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

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

If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.

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

A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice.

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

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

'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

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

Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

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

The Simpsons are going to Delaware!

I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

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.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.

See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!

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

Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

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

If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

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.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

The journey is its own reward.

Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.

What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.