Wisdom Quote by Homer — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.”

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

“Reproach is infinite, and knows no end”

“For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces.”

“Too many kings can ruin an army”

“Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.”

“She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom”

“If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.”

“‎They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that they are angry with you?" "Because, they despise me for wanting to soar, they only want me to peck at the dirt, looking for ants, with them. But I can't do that. I don't have chicken feet, I have eagle wings." "And what is so wrong with having eagle wings and no chicken feet?" Asked the old owl. "I'm not sure, that's what I'm trying to find out." "They hate you because you know that you are an eagle and they want you to think you are a chicken so that you will peck at the ground looking for ants and worms, so that you will never know that you are an eagle and always think yourself a chicken. Let them hate you, they will always be chickens, and you will always be an eagle. You must fly. You must soar." Said the old owl.”

“One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.”

“Some wisdom lives in your body before your mind can explain it. Trust what your bones know.”