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
life beautiful envy
I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
life success broken-heart
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
life-and-love literature daring
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
life hilarious funny-beer
When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. THEY'RE ON TV!
life success heart
I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.
life eulogy razors
Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
life men tree
As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.
life men woe
To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
inspirational life men
Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
rage-from-the-iliad wealth life-is
My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius
life men needs
All men have need of the gods.
life kind deceiving
For love deceives the best of woman kind.
life hate too-much
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
life pain fate
For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!