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
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.
procrastination letters alphabet
Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.
men world coats
When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.
knowing mind littles
If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.
men good-man secret
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
men animal hands
Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
two world sin
There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
love-is few-words sometimes
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
lesson-learned muzzle lessons
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.