Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever.
HomerTags: sorrow mourning homer the-odyssey
Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.
Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead." -Achilles
HomerAs the wind scatters leaves upon the earth, such is the race of men
HomerIf you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.
HomerTags: happiness love beauty marriage awe
But his sister, Artemis of the wild, the lady of wild beasts,
scolded him bitterly and spoke a word of revilement:
'You run from him, striker from afar...Fool, then why do you wear that bow, which is wind and nothing.
The tongue of man is a twisty thing.
HomerTags: language
My every impulse bends to what is right
HomerWords empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
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