Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. (Homer)

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer

Related topics

comes glory help honor men nor sense slain

Related quotes

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. View quote
Eudora Welty
There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought. View quote
Xenophanes
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it's right. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. View quote
Emil Cioran
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. View quote
John Cheever