Homer Quotes and Sayings

We are quick to flare up we races of men on the earth.

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

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband’s murder.

The gods likening themselves to all kinds of strangers go in various disguises from city to city observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

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

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.

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.

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

The single best augury is to fight for one’s country.

Once harm has been done even a fool understands it.

There is a fullness of all things even of sleep and love.

The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

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

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

How God ever brings like to like.