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
children looks faces
When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.
guy tree towns
Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut tree.
alaska america
We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!
grief fate men
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
internet programming computer-programming
Internet! Is that thing still around?
judgment quick thou weak
Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak
wine mind body
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
inspirational teenager fool-me-once
Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
literature compare sane
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
fathers-day dad son
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
prayer heart men
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
friendship family sympathy
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
lying dark sea
The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.
inspirational funny friendship
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.