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Quotes by Homer

Homer

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.

Light is the task when many share the toil.

He held his seat a friend to human race.

Labor conquers all things.

Who dares think one thing and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted and who has many responsibilities.

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

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

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

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

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.

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