Homer was the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. These Homer quotes will motivate you.
Best Homer Quotes
- “Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.” ~ Homer
- “I’m in a place where I don’t know where I am!” ~ Homer
- “There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” ~ Homer
- “Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” ~ Homer
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“The journey is its own reward.” ~ Homer
- “To be loved, you have to be nice to people, every day. But to be hated, you don’t have to do squat!” ~ Homer , Homer quotes on love
- “The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.” ~ Homer
- “If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.” ~ Homer
- “Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.” ~ Homer
- “The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.” ~ Homer
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“Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.” ~ Homer
- “I guess some people never change… Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.” ~ Homer
- “Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.” ~ Homer
- “Because they’re stupid, that’s why. That’s why everybody does everything.” ~ Homer
- “Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.” ~ Homer
- “There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” ~ Homer
- “out of sight,out of mind” ~ Homer
- “After the event, even a fool is wise.” ~ Homer
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“And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.” ~ Homer
- “Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.” ~ Homer
- “For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother” ~ Homer
- “Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.” ~ Homer
- “Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.” ~ Homer
- “youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgment.” ~ Homer
- “It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.” ~ Homer
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“Trying is the first step toward failure.” ~ Homer
- “To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.” ~ Homer , Homer quotes about war
- “In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!” ~ Homer
- “The force of union conquers all.” ~ Homer
- “Each man delights in the work that suits him best.” ~ Homer
- “It’s disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.” ~ Homer
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“Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.” ~ Homer
- “Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” ~ Homer
- “Modesty is of no use to a beggar.” ~ Homer
- “Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.” ~ Homer
- “Even a fool learns something once it hits him.” ~ Homer
- “Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.” ~ Homer , Homer quotes on death
- “Death submits to no one.” ~ Homer
- “A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds…it makes ice.” ~ Homer
- “What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose.” ~ Homer -
“How vain, without the merit, is the name.” ~ Homer
- “The lot of man-to suffer and die.” ~ Homer
- “Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.” ~ Homer
- “There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.” ~ Homer
- “Young people are thoughtless as a rule.” ~ Homer
- “Immortals are never alien to one another.” ~ Homer
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“Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.” ~ Homer
- “And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart’s desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one heart and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.” ~ Homer
- “The tongue of man is a twisty thing.” ~ Homer
- “Too many kings can ruin an army” ~ Homer
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“And empty words are evil.” ~ Homer
- “Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep…in a giant blender.” ~ Homer
- “A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.” ~ Homer
- “Light is the task where many share the toil.” ~ Homer
- “Everything flows and nothing stays.” ~ Homer
- “A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.” ~ Homer
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“For too much rest becomes a pain.” ~ Homer
- “Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.” ~ Homer
- “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.” ~ Homer
- “Few sons are like their fathers – many are worse, few better.” ~ Homer
- “You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.” ~ Homer
- “The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.” ~ Homer
- “A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.” ~ Homer
- “It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.” ~ Homer
- “Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.” ~ Homer
