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
wise patience reality
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
wise wine vineyards
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
wise men wicked
For never, never, wicked man was wise.
wise color sensual
She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.
wine men wisest-man
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
wise wine men
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
wise lying men
...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.
inspirational wise doubt
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
wise wine laughing
Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
wise fool events
After the event, even a fool is wise.
wise art cleverness
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
wise powerful heart
Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and Might to inspire new hopes and powerful To drown the bitterness of cares.
wise children father
It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]
child father knows wise
It is a wise child that knows his own father