Quotes from Homer

Bold is the task, when subjects, grown too wise,Instruct a monarch where his error lies;

A maid, unmatch'd in manners as in face,Skill'd in each art, and crown'd with ev'ry grace:

And here, take my veil and put it round your chest; it is enchanted, and you can come to no harm so long as you wear it. (Calypso)

You fill my heart with a pain for which i find no cure

Light as the viewless air the warrior maid Glides through the valves, and hovers round her head; A favourite virgin's blooming form she took, From Dymas sprung, and thus the vision spoke: "Oh Indolent! to waste thy hours away!

My story—the whole truth—I'm glad to tell it all. If only the two of us had food and mellow wine to last us long, here in your shelter now, for us to sup on, undisturbed, while others take the work of the world in hand, I could easily spend all year and never reach the end of my endless story, all the heartbreaking trials I struggled through.

Alcinous' daughter Nausicaa was the only one to stand firm. Athena put courage into her heart and took away the fear from her limbs, and she stood her ground and faced him.

Beware, Diomedês! Forbear, Diomedês! Do not try to put yourself on a level with the gods; that is too high for a man's ambition. The immortal gods are one race, men that walk upon the earth are another.

Trojans, and Lycians, and ye Dardans, fam'd In close encounter, quit ye now like men; Put forth your wonted valour; for I know That in his secret counsels Jove designs Glory to me, disaster to the Greeks.

For nothing, as I now see it, equals the value of life - not the wealth they say prosperous Ilium possessed in earlier days, when there was peace, before the coming of the Greeks, nor all the treasure pilled up behind the stone threshold of Phoebus Apollo in rocky Delphi. Cattle and fat sheep can be lifted. Tripods and chestnut horses can be procured. But you cannot lift or procure a man's life, when once the breath has left his lips.

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

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end.

I am the son of a great man. A goddess was my mother. Yet death and inexorable destiny are waiting for me as well.

and they limp and halt, they're all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can't look yu in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin.

and they limp and halt, they're all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can't look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin.

I too seemed destined to be a man of fortune once and a wild wicked swath I cut, indulged my lust for violence, stalking all on my father and my brothers. Look at me now, And so, I say, let no man ever be lawless all his life, just take in peace what gifts the gods will send.

Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men— old leaves, cast on the ground by wind, young leaves the greening forest bears when spring comes in. So mortals pass; one generation flowers even as another dies away.

All running gear secure in the swift black craft, they set up bowls and brimmed them high with wine and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die—to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-gray eyes— and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn.

what's out of sight, is out of mind

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.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

You stupid food! -Athene to Ares

Ares] you shifty hypocrite, don't come whining to me. I hate you more than any other god on Olympus.

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.