66+ Best Homer Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Homer is the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature. Profoundly inspirational Homer quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.

Famous Homer Quotes

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. Homer

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

I’m in a place where I don’t know where I am! Homer

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.

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

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.

Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. Homer

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

The journey is its own reward. Homer

And empty words are evil.

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, every day. But to be hated, you don’t have to do squat! Homer , Homer quotes on love

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

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

There will be killing till the score is paid.

If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also. Homer

Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. Homer

Few sons are like their fathers most are worse, few better.

The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars. Homer

Immortals are never alien to one another.

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest. Homer

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

I guess some people never change Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back. Homer

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe. Homer

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember.

Because they’re stupid, that’s why. That’s why everybody does everything. Homer

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. Homer

Say not a word in death’s favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man’s house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead Achilles.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer

My every impulse bends to what is right.

After the event, even a fool is wise. Homer

It’s a good thing that beer wasn’t shaken up any more, or I’d have looked quite the fool. An April fool, as it were

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. Homer

I’ve figured out an alternative to giving up my beer. Basically, we become a family of traveling acrobats

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. Homer

All right, let’s not panic. I’ll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother Homer

Does whisky count as beer?

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

All right, brain. You don’t like me and I don’t like you, but let’s just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. Homer

Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. Homer

Marge send the kids to the neighbors. I’m coming home loaded.

Trying is the first step toward failure. Homer

Beer. Now there’s a temporary solution

To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right, in peace and war, in council and in fight. Homer 

Ah, good ol’ trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! Homer

Homer no function beer well without

The force of union conquers all. Homer

Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.Homer

The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let’s see. Don’t tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you’re sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do

It’s disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate. Homer

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals except the weasel

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches. Homer

Gee, there are so many gods. What happens if we believe in the wrong one? Every time we go to church we just make the real one madder and madder.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. Homer

I’m having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!

Modesty is of no use to a beggar. Homer

You don’t win friends with salad.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. Homer

If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing.