Horace Quotes

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . .

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.

There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

he who is greedy is always in want

In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

I have been crying, " she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Consumers are what’s going to change the world, not necessarily industries or governments,

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Your Prayer Life is a Reflection of your Relationship with God

I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

It has been my experience that, even when a man has a sense of humor, it only really carries him to the point where he will join in a laugh at the expense of the other fellow.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

Anger is a brief madness.

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)

The story is told of yourself.

Think positive, Butch.

I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Now is the time to drink!

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.

Whatever advice you give be short.