Quotes from Homer

My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.

My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.

I say no wealth is worth my life.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Light is the task where many share the toil.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.

It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

I don't know how much longer I can complain.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

No trust is to be placed in women.

Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.

Too many kings can ruin an army

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.