Showing posts with label Horace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horace. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning
can cure stupidity, and higher education
positively fortifies it.
- Stephen Vizinczey

There's a fine line between genius and
insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant


It is far better to be silent than merely
to increase the quantity of bad books.
- Voltaire

To believe is to know you believe, and to
know you believe is not to believe.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Drop the question what tomorrow
may bring, and count as profit
every day that fate allows you.
- Horace


Just because you made a mistake
doesn't mean you are a mistake.
- Georgette Mosbacher

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Quotes

"I write down everything I want to remember. That
way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to
remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time
looking for the paper I wrote it down on."
- Beryl Pfizer

"The murals in restaurants are
on par with the food in museums."
- Peter De Vries

"We don't see things as they
are, we see things as we are."
- Anais Nin

"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will
cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
- Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

"I bought some batteries,
but they weren't included."
- Steven Wright

"Do not condemn the judgement of another because
it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."
- Dandemis

Friday, February 27, 2009

Quotaria

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand
fibers connect us with our fellow men."
- Herman Melville

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
- Laurence J. Peter

"Time is what we want most,
but what we use worst."
- William Penn

The cautious seldom err.
- Confucius

Once a word has been allowed to
escape, it cannot be recalled.
- Horace

It is only the great men who are truly obscene.
If they had not dared to be obscene, they could
never have dared to be great.
- Havelock Ellis