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
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.
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.
destiny men brave
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
men done chance
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
moving men earth
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
country men bravery
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
doers deeds mental-health
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
men mind age
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
wine men giving
Wine gives strength to weary men.
daughter men feet
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
inspirational teenager men
Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
fighting fate men
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
men mad magic
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
men baths cologne
I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.