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
dog years long
Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.
differences facts delivery
There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.
apples office tree
When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.
mistake eggs rotten
When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.
cutting choices human-nature
The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
girl jobs men
A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.
fun work men
After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.
money men thinking
When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.
men merchants
It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
leadership money smart
It is 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 you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
men two might
Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
inspirational motivational positive
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
errors different different-directions
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
character consistency ends
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.