Homér: Trending quotes

Homér trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection

Homér: 434 quotes72 likes

“some things you will think of yourself,… some things God will put into your mind”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

“The journey is the thing.”

“There will be killing till the score is paid.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

“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.”

Source: The Iliad

“… like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.”

Source: The Iliad

“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”

Source: The Iliad

“Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.”

“His descent was like nightfall.”

Source: The Iliad

“Why cover the same ground again?… It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

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

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Variant: Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.
Source: The Odyssey

“out of sight, out of mind”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

“Beauty! Terrible Beauty!
A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!”

Source: The Iliad

“Immortals are never alien to one another.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

“Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.”

Source: The Iliad

“Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XIV. 463–466 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Context: Tis sweet to play the fool in time and place,
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile,
The grave in merry measures frisk about,
And many a long-repented word bring out.

“Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”

Source: The Iliad

“Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.”

Source: Iliad

“Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure…
For already have I suffered full much,
and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.
Let this be added to the tale of those.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

“The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.”

Source: The Iliad

“Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey