More Homer Quotes

1. A companion's words of persuasion are effective. ...
   
2. A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night thr ...
   
3. A decent boldness ever meets with friends. ...
   
4. A generation of men is like a generation of leaves ...
   
5. A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let the ...
   
6. A small rock holds back a great wave. ...
   
7. A young man is embarrassed to question an older on ...
   
8. All men have need of the gods. ...
   
9. All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gif ...
   
10. Among all men on the earth bards have a share of h ...
    
11. At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fea ...
    
12. By their own follies they perished, the fools. ...
    
13. Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, ...
    
14. Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not ev ...
    
15. Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that r ...
    
16. Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal ...
    
17. Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up ...
    
18. For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most ...
    
19. Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man wh ...
    
20. He knew the things that were and the things that w ...
    
21. He lives not long who battles with the immortals, ...
    
22. How God ever brings like to like. ...
    
23. I detest that man who hides one thing in the depth ...
    
24. I should rather labor as another's serf, in the ho ...
    
25. I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but no ...
    
26. If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who ...
    
27. In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean ...
    
28. It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in ba ...
    
29. It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would ...
    
30. It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, ...
    
31. It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in de ...
    
32. It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly ...
    
33. It was built against the will of the immortal gods ...
    
34. Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for the ...
    
35. May the gods grant you all things which your heart ...
    
36. Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing ...
    
37. Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment ...
    
38. Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up ...
    
39. Of men who have a sense of honor, more come throug ...
    
40. Once harm has been done, even a fool understands i ...
    
41. So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts o ...
    
42. The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend ...
    
43. The fates have given mankind a patient soul. ...
    
44. The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast ...
    
45. The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of stra ...
    
46. The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed ...
    
47. The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome ...
    
48. The single best augury is to fight for one's count ...
    
49. The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which s ...
    
50. There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep a ...
    
51. There is a strength in the union even of very sorr ...
    
52. There is a time for many words, and there is also ...
    
53. There is nothing more dread and more shameless tha ...
    
54. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than whe ...
    
55. Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mo ...
    
56. We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the e ...
    
57. Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly l ...
    
58. Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth o ...
    
59. You ought not to practice childish ways, since you ...
    
60. You will certainly not be able to take the lead in ...
    
61. Young men's minds are always changeable, but when ...
    
62. Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment ...