Homer Quotes About Giving

• Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.

  Homer

  Dolor, Corazón, Dar

  Homer, Stanley Lombardo (1819). “Iliad”, p.443, Hackett Publishing

• Wine gives strength to weary men.

  Homer

  Vino, Hombres, Dar

• It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

  Homer

  Success, Fighting, Men

  Homer (1848). “The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope”, p.151

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

  Homer

  Giving, Soul, Birth

  Homer (2008). “The Iliad of Homer: Easyread Large Edition”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

• By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

  Homer

  Giving, Charity, Philanthropy

  Homer (2015). “The Odyssey”, p.249, Homer

• All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

  Homer

  Giving, Stranger, Zeus

• Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.

  Homer

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  Homer (2013). “The Homer Anthology”, p.1704, eBookIt.com

• La vida, que otros pagan, démosla nosotros,
  y demos a la fama lo que debemos a la naturaleza.

  Homer

  Dar, Pagar, Fama

  Homero (1796). "La Ilíada de Homero", p.352

• Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

  Homer

  Grief, Blessing, Two

• Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

  Homer

  Father, Believe, Moving

• So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

  Homer

  Men, Giving, Grace

• Wine give strenght to weary men. and
  And wine can of their wits the wise beguile.
  Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and
  Let those who drink not, but austerely dine,
  Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and
  No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and
  Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and
  Might to inspire new hopes and powerful
  To drown the bitterness of cares.

  Homer

  Wise, Powerful, Heart

• The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

  Homer

  Giving, Providence, Mortals

  "Ilíada". Poema épico de Homero, c. 750 a.C.

• The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

  Homer

  Giving, Lord, Please

  Homer (1937). “The Odyssey, the Story of Ulysses”

• Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

  Homer

  Men, Giving, Talent

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

• 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

  Giving, Grows, Fades

• Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.

  Homer

  Giving, Ears

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.11

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