Quotes from Homer

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

Labor conquers all things.

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

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

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.

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

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

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

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

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.

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.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

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

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

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.

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

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