Quotes by Homer

About Homer:

Homer is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

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

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Homer

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

Homer

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

Homer

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

Homer

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Homer

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

Homer

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

Homer

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 t...

Homer

...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...

Homer

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...

Homer

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Homer

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

Homer

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Homer

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

Homer

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Homer

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Homer

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Homer

Author Bio

  • NameHomer
  • DescriptionAncient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
  • ProfessionPoet