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
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When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.
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.
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I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.
inspirational funny friendship
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
friendship family sympathy
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
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It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
beer weakness achilles
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.
god
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
boys nuclear-reactors buttons
You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.
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Homer no function beer well without.
laughter sky absurd
Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.
moving eggs fudge
Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge.
mad insane world
In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane.
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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.