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
cigarette-smoke fishing fire
A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
long alive journalism
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
men earning-it careers
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
atheism vedas doctrine
There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
mean cutting winter
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
practice would-be pulpit
Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
dogmatism bigotry
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
men rights inferiors
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
men riches culture
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
war two people
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.
inspirational life money
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
country men imbeciles
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
historical liberty noble
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
common-sense common uncommon
Common sense is very uncommon.