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
proposal funny-simpsons flat-tax
I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.
boys liquid balls
A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.
grief son blood
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!
family money world-and-love
Being popular is the most important thing in the world!
wind sea skills
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
sports strong heart
O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes
spring fall men
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.
adventure two resolution
For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.
sight soul poverty
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
ocean night light
Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.
return rich fame
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
kindness justice heaven
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
travel rivers rushing
One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.
god men ifs
If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.