Barren Quote by Homer Download Open image “Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.” — Homer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barren Fame Labor Labour Money Mourn Return Rich
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to… — Ernest Legouve Copy Share Image
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless. — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“When the productive lands lose their essence, our productive lives shall least have essence!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. — Sallust 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
“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle;… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image