Homer Quotes - Page 7

• Jove lifts the golden balances that show
  The fates of mortal men, and things below.

  Homer

  Fate, Men, Balance

  Homer (1773). “The Iliad”, p.423, Hayes Barton Press

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• But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

  Homer

  Looks, Use, Rage From The Iliad

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• Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

  Homer

  Fighting, Fate, Men

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

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• But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.

  Homer

  Grieving, Winning, Men

  Homer (2008). “Odyssey, Homer”, Spark Publishing Group

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• Las mejores cosas más allá de su medida empalagan.

  Homer

  Discontent, Best Things

  Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.81

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• …but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

  Homer

  Wife, Rage From The Iliad, Fields

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• Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

  Homer

  Daughter, Men, Feet

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• Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

  Homer

  Grief, Blessing, Two

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• How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

  Homer

  Men, Feet, Feminist

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• All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

  Homer

  Men, Body, Fats

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• Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

  Homer

  Pain, Way, Odyssey

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.48, Penguin

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• Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins.

  Homer

  One Day, Tvs, Ends

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• I say no wealth is worth my life.

  Homer

  Riqueza

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• There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

  Homer

  Men, Alive, Earth

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• It is not good to have a rule of many.

  Homer

  Literatura

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• ¿No aceptarás gorrones en tu choza?

  Homer

  Moochers, Huts

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• Si aún no se ha perdido todo el sentido de la vergüenza.

  Homer

  Shame, Lost, Ifs

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• No es indecoroso que un hombre muera luchando en defensa de su país.

  Homer

  País, Lucha, Hombres

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• Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

  Homer

  Laughter, Blessed, Uncontrollable

  Homer, Martin Hammond (2000). “The odyssey”, Duckbacks

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• The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

  Homer

  Tongue, Satisfaction, Windy

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.352

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• If they think I'm going to stop at that stop sign, they're mistaken!

  Homer

  Thinking, Mistaken, Ifs

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

  Homer

  Home, Men, Doe

  Homero (1981). "La Odisea ilustrada"

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• Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

  Homer

  Hombres, Maldad, Hechos

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• Have patience, heart.

  Homer

  Heart, Having Patience

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• Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe
  The fate of many.

  Homer

  Fate, Toil, Woe

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.254

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