He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. (Homer)

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

Homer

Related topics

battle children lives nor prattle

Related quotes

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. View quote
Bertrand Russell
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. View quote
Patrick Henry