Quotes by Homer

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

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart its burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever.

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

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

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.

What I say will be a bit of boasting. The mad wine tells me to do it. Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

Tis mans to fight but Heavens to give success.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

Far from gay cities and the way of men.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.

There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

The bitter dregs of Fortunes cup to drain.

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired.