Greek Homer Quotes

#1. The first printed Greek Homer had appeared in 1488, in Florence, published by an Athenian, Demetrius Chalcondyles,

Adam Nicolson

#2. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Homer

#3. Force will not keep the empire together. Force has never kept anything together for the very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers. You're a foolish man Governor. Foolish men often choke to death on their own delusions.

George Lucas

#4. The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.

Oscar Wilde

#5. As a text, the Quran is more than the foundation of the Islamic religion; it is the source of Arabic grammar. It is to Arabic what Homer is to Greek, what Chaucer is to English: a snapshot of an evolving language, frozen forever in time

Reza Aslan

#6. It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

Felicity Jones

#7. The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmonized Greek civilization with Roman ideals

John Mark Reynolds

#8. And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

Homer

#9. Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be.

Homer

#10. The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

Danica Patrick

#11. When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

Alice Oswald

#12. The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

David Bowie

#13. Every actor gets their due.

Timothy Omundson

#14. The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.

Jostein Gaarder

#15. Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.

Homer

#16. We are not our station in life. We are us - the sum of what we've done, what we want to do, and the people who we keep close.

Pierce Brown

#17. I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits of the dead, brides and unwed youths, old men worn out by labour, and tender maidens with hearts still new to sorrow.

Homer

#18. Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

Homer

#19. There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.

Adam Nicolson

#20. Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

George Herbert