Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.
Homer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Homer
Author
Poet
Writer
Homerus
Homeros
Mæonides
Year
Leaves
Bud
Comes
Blow
Scattered
Years
Ground
Burst
Men
Spring
Blows
Like
Generations
Fresh
Ones
Round
Wind
Rounds
Tree
Trees
More quotes by Homer
A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
Homer
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
Homer
The sex is ever to a soldier kind.
Homer
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
Homer
The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.
Homer
In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men.
Homer
Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.
Homer
To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.
Homer
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Homer
Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
Homer
The hearts of great men can be changed.
Homer
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
Homer
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.
Homer
We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.
Homer
Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.
Homer
Everything flows and nothing stays.
Homer
I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.
Homer
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.
Homer
And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.
Homer
