Horace

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

Private men, in fine, are so much their own, that, paying common dues, they are sovereigns of all the rest. Yet the public must and will be served; and they that do it well, deserve public marks of honour and respect. To do so, men must have public minds, as well as salaries; or they will serve private ends at the public cost. Government can never be well administered, but where those intrusted make conscience of well discharging their places.

I am stronger than my fear.

I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better been left to the men.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.