Quotes from Homer

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

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I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!

Even a fool may be wise after the event.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

My every impulse bends to what is right

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you— it's born with us the day that we are born.

What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?

A small rock holds back a great wave.

The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him

I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

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

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

First she said we were to keep clear of the Sirens, who sit and sing most beautifully in a field of flowers; but she said I might hear them myself so long as no one else did. Therefore, take me and bind me to the crosspiece half way up the mast; bind me as I stand upright, with a bond so fast that I cannot possibly break away, and lash the rope's ends to the mast itself. If I beg and pray you to set me free, then bind me more tightly still.

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.

of all creatures that breathe and move on earth none is more to be pitied than a man.

Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another

The rose Dawn might have found them weeping still had not grey-eyed Athena slowed the night when night was most profound, and held the Dawn under the Ocean of the East. That glossy team, Firebright and Daybright, the Dawn's horses that draw her heavenward for men- Athena stayed their harnessing.

Three thousand years have not changed the human condition in this respect; we are still lovers and victims of the will to violence, and so long as we are, Homer will be read as its truest interpreter.