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
giving-up firsts succeed
If at first you don't succeed, give up.
grief heart giving
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.
wine men giving
Wine gives strength to weary men.
giving soul birth
'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
giving charity philanthropy
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
giving grows fades
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
men giving grace
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
giving providence mortals
The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.
men giving talent
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
giving stranger zeus
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
giving ears
Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
giving lord please
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
giving pay fame
The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.
giving-up mistake drinking
I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.