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
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.
inspirational motivational positive
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
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.
hurt promise credit
Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.
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.
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.
book men brain
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
giving lasts fool
Give fools the first and women the last word.
lying world lost
You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.