Horace's Quotes

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. — Horace

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. — Horace

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. — Horace

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it. — Horace Walpole

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press. — Horace Greeley

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it. — Horace

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. — Horace Greeley

Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire. — Horace

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

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. — Horace

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

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days. — Horace

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

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. — Horace

Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands. — Horace

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. — Horace

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

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] — Horace

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist. — Horace

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

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while. — Horace

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking. — George Horace Lorimer

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. — Horace

Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew. — Horace

But some people, and especially very young people, don't think anything's worth believing unless it's hard to believe. — George Horace Lorimer

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. — Horace

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? — Horace

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits. — Horace

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. — Horace

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum? — Horace

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. — Horace

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? — 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