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100 Memorable Quotes By Homer To Live By

Famous As: Ancient Greek Author Who is Considered One of the Greatest and Most Influential Authors of All Time

Born On: 928 AD

Born In: Ionia, Greece

Homer was an author, intellectual and philosopher in ancient Greece, who is credited with writing two of the greatest epics in the history of literature. There is no consensus as to the ancient period in which he lived; some estimates place it at 850 BCE while others place it at around 1102 BCE. There have been plenty of ancient Greek authors who are considered to be among the greatest in the world and Homer towers above all of them for being the original master. One of Greece’s greatest thinkers Plato called him ‘the first teacher’ and went on to state that Homer was the one who ‘taught Greece’. Homer penned the ‘Iliad’ and the ‘Odyssey’; the two great epics of ancient Greece and has firmly cemented his place among the greatest poets in the world. Homer was also an outstanding orator and it is estimated that a large bulk of his work was in the form of speeches. Most of those speeches provided the intellectuals of a later age with the template of making a persuasive argument as regards to the topic of their choice. As such, it is not a sur-prise that Homer has left behind a great many quotes that would be relevant forever and here are some of the select ones.

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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
Homer

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
Love
Homer

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Me Heart
Homer

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

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

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
Homer

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

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

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

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

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Friends
Homer

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
I
Homer

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

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

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.

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.
Me
Homer

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
Death
Homer

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!
I
Homer

We men are wretched things.
Homer

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
Homer

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.

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.
Alone
Homer

The journey is the thing.
Homer

Some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

Some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind
You Think God Will
Homer

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

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

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
Homer

There will be killing till the score is paid.

There will be killing till the score is paid.
Will
Homer

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Life
Homer

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
Me Time
Homer