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
men world right-thing-to-say
The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
girl running distance
It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.
men listening flattering
Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.
enemy world way
The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
matter climate culture
Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
men chance praise
Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
wind needs violence
The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
song gratitude easter
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.
men giving trying
There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
long appearance deceiving
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
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.