Horace

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

How earthy old people become moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.