Quotes about Horace

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All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fadi — Nathan Reese Maher
Cheese runners shouted at it, tried to grab it, and flailed at it with sticks, but the piratical cheese scythed onward, — Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
Celebrate my heart, at ease or on fire, in my usual featherbrained way.Horace, Roman PoetOde I-6, 23 BCE — Vivian Swift, When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put
Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite — but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.
Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lostmemories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow — Nathan Reese Maher
Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city. — Nathan Reese Maher
There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomachin a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack — Nathan Reese Maher
I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?”She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you? — Nathan Reese Maher
Did Bach ever eatpancakes at midnight? — Nathan Reese Maher
History doesn’t start with a tall buildingand a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is taki — Nathan Reese Maher
I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and it is ther — Nathan Reese Maher
She leaves my side and heads deeper intothe apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… acopp — Nathan Reese Maher
I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands li — Nathan Reese Maher
That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m — Nathan Reese Maher
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought — but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear — S.F. Chandler, We The Great Are Misthought
Come closer, Kurokuma. It's quite safe.'Horace shuffled closer to the edge...'Quite safe, my foot,' he muttered to himse — John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
What was that, Kurokuma?' asked one of the escorts riding near him. The others chuckled at the name.'Nothing important,' — John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibia — Edith Hamilton, The Roman Way
There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt].'How do y — John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja