Giving Quotes by Homer

It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

— Homer

Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.

— Homer

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

— Homer

If at first you don't succeed, give up.

— Homer

Wine gives strength to weary men.

— Homer

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

— Homer

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

— Homer

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

— Homer

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

— Homer

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

— Homer

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

— Homer

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives,…

— Homer

Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as…

— Homer

Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote…

— Homer

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could…

— Homer

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for…

— Homer

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for…

— Homer

Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the…

— Homer