Homer
Homer
Homeris best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
tree jerk standing-there
It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!
world gray great-simpsons
I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.
dad thinking age
I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.
gun knives weapons
A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
stupid kidneys doe
Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.
winning odor unions
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.
men body fats
All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.
life success heart
I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.
knives butchers
Never throw a butcher knife in anger.
grief son blood
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!
men heaven sacred
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
fighting swings skills
Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.
lying winning dust
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
men honor alive
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.