Homer
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.Collection: Sympathy
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!Collection: Beauty
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.Collection: Marriage
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.Collection: Communication
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.Collection: Patience
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.Collection: Great
It is not good to have a rule of many.Collection: Government
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.Collection: Time
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.Collection: Great
The journey is its own reward.Collection: Journey
Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.Collection: Challenges
Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.Collection: Beautiful
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.Collection: Deeds
The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.Collection: Stars
Everything flows and nothing stays.Collection: Spiritual
If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.Collection: Inspirational
To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!Collection: Nice
Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.Collection: Stupid
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.Collection: Destiny
Trying is the first step toward failure.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: Inspirational
A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.Collection: Thank You
After the event, even a fool is wise.Collection: Wise
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.Collection: Heart
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.Collection: Inspirational
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.Collection: Fate
Each man delights in the work that suits him best.Collection: Inspirational
Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.Collection: Heart
My life is more to me than all the wealth of IliusCollection: Rage From The Iliad
A small rock holds back a great wave.Collection: Inspirational
I war not with the dead.Collection: War
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.Collection: Jobs
Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.Collection: Coffee
Dreams are sent by God.Collection: Dream
A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.Collection: Country
Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.Collection: Heaven
We all scribble poetry.Collection: Poetry
I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.Collection: Moving
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.Collection: Strong
It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.Collection: Success
For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.Collection: Ocean
[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.Collection: Dream
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.Collection: Drinking
O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyesCollection: Sports