Quotes from Homer

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

Wine gives strength to weary men.

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.

There is a strength in the even of very sorry men

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

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.

But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.