Homer Quotes
"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe."
- Homer
(Related: Time, Heart)
"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid."
- Homer
(Related: Wind, Words)
"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause."
- Homer
(Related: Cause, Country, Man)
"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform."
- 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
(Related: Blessings, Evil, Man)
"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired."
- Homer
(Related: Soul, Friends)
"True friends appear less moved than counterfeit."
- Homer
(Related: Friends)
"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
(Related: Wife, People, Enemies, Eye, Friends, Man, Nothing)
"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
- Homer
(Related: Time, Sleep, Words)
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
- Homer
(Related: Friend, Difficulty, Dying, Worth)
"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others."
- Homer
(Related: Charity, Trifle)
"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
- Homer
(Related: Fathers, Sons)
"To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
- Homer
(Related: Fear, Friend, Man)
"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
- Homer
(Related: Boldness, Friends)
"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
- Homer
(Related: Brother, Friend)
"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."
- Homer
(Related: Thought)
"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."
- Homer
(Related: Heart)
"Light is the task where many share the toil."
- Homer
(Related: Light)
"Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing."
- Homer
(Related: Sleep)
"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."
- Homer
(Related: Heart, Hell)
"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
- Homer
(Related: Heart, Man)
"How vain, without the merit, is the name."
- Homer
(Related: Merit, Name)
"Hunger is insolent, and will be fed."
- Homer
(Related: Hunger, Will)
"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"
- Homer
(Related: Wisdom, Beauty, Youth)
"It is not good to have a rule of many."
- Homer
"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions."
- Homer
(Related: Spirit)