Quotes from Homer

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread conflict.

There is no more trusting in women.

By the ships there lies a dead man, unwept, unburied: Patroclus.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

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

From his [Nestor's] tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

Prayers are the daughters of mighty Zeus, lame and wrinkled and slanting-eyed.

All men have need of the gods.

Thus she spoke; and I longed to embrace my dead mother's ghost. Thrice I tried to clasp her image, and thrice it slipped through my hands, like a shadow, like a dream.

The son of Kronos [Zeus] spoke, and bowed his dark brow, and immortal locks fell forward from the lord's deathless head, and he made great Olympus tremble.

There is no reason to blame the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans that for such a woman [Helen] they long suffer woes.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

She [Helen] threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

May men say, "He is far greater than his father," when he returns from battle.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

Speaking, he addressed her with winged words.

And the plan of Zeus was being accomplished.

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

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.

Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks.