Beggar Quote by Homer Download Open image “Modesty is of no use to a beggar.” — Homer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beggar Humble Humility Modesty Use
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. — Anonymous 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
If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than… — Peire Cardenal Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl. — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
