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
beautiful summer winter
Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.
song littles doe
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
men white-man age
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
exercise world gunpowder
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
men wife coward
I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
new-york discovery boston
The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.
thinking ignorant mind
One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.
wisdom common-sense moments
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
men rights white-man
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.
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.
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.