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
giving-up firsts succeed
If at first you don't succeed, give up.
trying firsts steps
Trying is the first step toward failure.
mind want firsts
First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!
deeds lasts firsts
My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.
gates greek-poet hateful heart hides man speaks
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
judgment quick thou weak
Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak
gay
I'm not gay, but I'll learn...
looks want weirdo
I don't want to look like a weirdo. I'll just go with the muumuu.
drug funny-simpsons fame
Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
mean sunday hey
Hey, what's the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn't God everywhere?
children looks faces
When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.
alaska america
We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!
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.
internet programming computer-programming
Internet! Is that thing still around?