All 78,476 Quotes

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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
Horace on speech

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Horace on success

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Horace on time

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

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horace on writing

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.
Bishop Horne on adversity

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
A. E. Housman on law

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston on dreams

No man's credit is as good as his money.
Edgar Watson Howe on credit

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
Edgar Watson Howe on life

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
Edgar Watson Howe on marriage

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Edgar Watson Howe on neighbor

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Edgar Watson Howe on reform

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Edgar Watson Howe on wealth

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Edgar Watson Howe on wealth

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard on argument

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard on criticism

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard on ignorance

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard on love

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Elbert Hubbard on progress