Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
books house room windows
A house without books is like room without windows
attempting cold desire inspiring pupil teacher
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
diamond gone lost reward sixty somewhere sunrise time
Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
ball force opportunity presents
You can't force anything, but when the opportunity presents itself, if the ball was in my hands, I was going to do it.
check good money sure
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.
hurt promise credit
Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.
forgiving succeed failing
Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
love-is age blind
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
land want firsts
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
giving lasts fool
Give fools the first and women the last word.
mistake men hands
There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
men animal talking
A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.
sermons sinner
You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
book men brain
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.