Quotes from Homer

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

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

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

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

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

Victory passes back and forth between men.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

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.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

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

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.

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

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

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

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

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

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.