Quotes from Homer

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

A coward's heart panteth in his breast...

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

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

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

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.

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

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

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

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

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

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.

What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

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

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

I want to be alone with my thought.

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!