Homer Life Quotations

When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. THEY'RE ON TV!

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

All men have need of the gods.

For love deceives the best of woman kind.

Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

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

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.