Horace

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

The surest poison is time.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Part of her mystery is how she is calm in the storm and anxious in the quiet.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Nature hates calculators.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.