Horace

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.