Horace

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.