The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind. — Homer Copy Share Image
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. — Homer Copy Share Image
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or… — Homer Copy Share Image
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. — Homer Copy Share Image
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death. — Homer Copy Share Image
Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although… — Homer Copy Share Image
One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and… — Homer Copy Share Image
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. — Homer Copy Share Image
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the… — Homer Copy Share Image
...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows… — Homer Copy Share Image
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead. — Homer Copy Share Image
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning… — Homer Copy Share Image
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious… — Homer Copy Share Image
If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what… — Homer Copy Share Image
Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below. — Homer Copy Share Image
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. — Homer Copy Share Image
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years… — Homer Copy Share Image
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. — Homer Copy Share Image
“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves… — Homer Copy Share Image
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… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for… — Homer Copy Share Image
“With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he would take… — Homer Copy Share Image
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. — Homer Copy Share Image
