Horace

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

We are free to yield to truth.

Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Blame is safer than praise.

Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.