Homer Homer Quotations

For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his son to be

It is a wise child that knows his own father

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen but his country's cause

To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds

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.

Two friends, two bodies with on soul inspired.

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. / The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. / So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful

Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured

The belly is the commanding part of the body

I have suffered much from waves and wars, and now let this trial join the rest.

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another