Quotes from Homer

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Therefore don't you be gentle to your wife either. Don't tell her everything you know, but tell her one thing and keep another thing hidden.

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Remembering this, he [Achilles] wept bitterly, lying now on his side, now on his back, now on his face.

Sweeter it [wrath] is by far than the honeycomb dripping with sweetness, and spreads through the hearts of men.

Words like winter snowflakes.

God always pairs off like with like.

In the extravagance of her evil she has brought shame both on herself and on all women who will come after her, even on one who is virtuous.

Even if you gods, and all the goddesses too, should be looking on, yet would I be glad to sleep with golden Aphrodite.

Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and of love.

Not even Achilles will bring all his words to fulfillment.

The hearts of the noble may be turned [by entreaty].

Sleep, the brother of Death.

No mortal could vie with Zeus, for his mansions and his possessions are deathless.

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

Smiling through tears.

The most preferable of evils.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

The sun, which sees all things and hears all things.

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 the lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Friends, we have not till now been unacquainted with misfortunes.

But he, mighty man, lay mightily in the whirl of dust, forgetful of his horsemanship.