Quotes from Homer

like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

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

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

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

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable