Quote

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

Homer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Homer
Author
Poet
Writer
Homerus
Homeros
Mæonides
Fortune
Birth
Worth
Gives
Alone
Soul
Giving
Jove

More quotes by Homer

Image
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
Homer
Image
Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.
Homer
Image
For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.
Homer
Image
Immortals are never alien to one another.
Homer
Image
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
Homer
Image
Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.
Homer
Image
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
Homer
Image
Good things don't end in -eum they end in -mania or -teria.
Homer
Image
I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!
Homer
Image
Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
Homer
Image
This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!
Homer
Image
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Homer
Image
To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!
Homer
Image
Death submits to no one.
Homer
Image
Do not mourn the dead with the belly.
Homer
Image
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
Homer
Image
A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.
Homer
Image
If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
Homer
Image
I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.
Homer
Image
The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.
Homer