Quotes by Homer

• Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
• Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
• Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
• Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
• Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
• Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
• Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
• True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
• 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.
• There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
• The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
• The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
• For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
• To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
• A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
• A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
• And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
• Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
• Light is the task where many share the toil.
• Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
• How vain, without the merit, is the name.
• Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
• In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
• It is not good to have a rule of many.
• But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.