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
principles noble
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
believe knowledge half
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.
knowledge clubs meat
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
opportunity today tomorrow
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
college men self
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
asking calling wealth
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
inspirational motivational courage
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
college fool college-life
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
reading good-man use
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
lying eye tongue
When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
thinking people special
And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.
humble men differences
It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
dog games rabbits
Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.
letting-go men stills
Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.