Homer Quotes

Ὅτε οἱ γλυκὺς ὕπνος
λυσιμελὴς ἐπόρουσε, λύων μελεδήματα θυμοῦ.

Παρὰ θῖνα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης.

The heart in his rugged chest was pounding, torn

These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.

But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.

Στρεπτὴ δὲ γλῶσσ' ἐστὶ βροτῶν, πολέες δ' ἔνι μῦθοι
παντοῖοι, ἐπέων δὲ πολὺς νομὸς ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα.

Οὐ γάρ τις νέμεσις φυγέειν κακόν, οὐδ' ἀνὰ νύκτα.
βέλτερον ὃς φεύγων προφύγῃ κακὸν ἠὲ ἁλώῃ.

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before—
I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.

When a Man's exhausted, wine will build his strength.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

You, you insolent brazen bitch — you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?

But Zeus does not bring to accomplishment all thoughts in men's minds.

Οὐ μὲν σχέτλια ἔργα θεοὶ μάκαρες φιλέουσιν,
ἀλλὰ δίκην τίουσι καὶ αἴσιμα ἔργ' ἀνθρώπων.

Grief wrapped around her, eating at her heart. The house was full of chairs but she could not bear to sit upright.

I say no wealth is worth my life.