Homer Quotes

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

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

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

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

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

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

A small rock holds back a great wave.

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

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

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

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

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

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

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

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

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

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

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.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.