What did Homer mean by: The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it’s time to fight. - Homer Poet · Greece Copy
+ Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Homer, Judgement, Youth, 0 - Homer Poet · Greece
+ A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Homer, 0 - Homer Poet · Greece
+ The melancholy joys of evils pass’d, For he who much has suffer’d, much will know. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Homer, Evil, Joy, Suffering, 0 - Homer Poet · Greece
+ See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead! Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Homer, Pairs, Worthless, 0 - Homer Poet · Greece
+ Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Homer, Anger, Honey, 0 - Homer Poet · Greece
+ Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Homer, Love, Tired, War, 0 - Homer Poet · Greece
+ Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Homer, Golden, Heaven, Links, 0 - Homer Poet · Greece
+ Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Homer, Earth, 0 - Homer Poet · Greece
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important. - Quincy Jones Music producer
The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. - Jeane Kirkpatrick Political scientist and diplomat
Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I’m really a flight animal. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting. - Jeff Bridges Actor · USA
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author