Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
— Horace Walpole
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
— Horace Greeley
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
— Horace Mann
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
— George Horace Lorimer
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
— Horace
Science is our century's art.
— Horace Freeland Judson
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
— Horace Greeley
Every man's life is a plan of God.
— Horace Bushnell
If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.
— John Flanagan
I don't know anything that's quite so dead as a man who's fallen three or four thousand feet off the edge of a cloud.
— George Horace Lorimer
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
— George Horace Lorimer
The fun of the thing's in the run and not in the finish. Your
— George Horace Lorimer
Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.
— Horace McCoy
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
— George Horace Lorimer
But some people, and especially very young people, don't think anything's worth believing unless it's hard to believe.
— George Horace Lorimer
Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.
— Horace
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. — Horace
Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism. — Horace Mann
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann
carpe diem (seize the day)Enjoy! Enjoy! — Horace
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. — Horace Walpole
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. — Horace
The war brought out all the art in me. — Horace Pippin
A pauper in the midst of wealth. — Horace
If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself. — Horace Pippin
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. — Horace
As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow. — Horace
God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked. — Horace Mann
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] — Horace
Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand. — Horace
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. — Horace
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. — Horace
This is a madhouse!" said Horace. Deirdre laughed. "No, doveling. It's a menagerie. — Ransom Riggs
Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself. — John Flanagan
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. — Horace
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage. — George Horace Lorimer
We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence. — Horace Mann
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. — Horace
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's. — George Horace Lorimer
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. — Horace
Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech. — Harold Holzer
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. — Horace
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. — Horace
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. — Horace
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. — Horace Walpole
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs. — Horace
To grow a philosopher's beard. — Horace
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. — Horace
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it. — George Horace Lorimer
One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all. — Horace
Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause. — Horace
What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face? — Horace
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. — Horace Walpole
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. — Horace
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. — Horace Mann
But ... what if I mistime it?"Gilan smiled widely. "Well, in that case, I'll probably lop your head off your shoulders."
Horace and Gilan — John Flanagan
Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with. — Michael Moore
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him. — Horace
Every fellow is really two men what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead. — George Horace Lorimer
There isn't any such thing as being your own boss in this world unless you're a tramp, and then there's the constable. — George Horace Lorimer
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his. — Horace Walpole
Let's put a limit to the scramble for money ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end. — Horace
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. — Horace
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on ... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest. — Horace
The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget. — Horace
Who's started has half finished. — Horace
It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant. — George Horace Lorimer
Beauty is only skin deep, but that's deep enough to satisfy any reasonable man. — George Horace Lorimer
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful. — Horace
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement. — Horace Bushnell
A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having. — George Horace Lorimer
It's a walking cart," Horace told him. "You get under it, so the spears won't hit you, and go for a walk. — John Flanagan
What's well begun is half done. — Horace
The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts. — George Horace Lorimer
What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes. — Reginald Horace Blyth
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them. — George Horace Lorimer
