Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Quote by Horace

Topics: Happiness Quotes

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire.

For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire.

Think to yourself that every day is your last

Think to yourself that every day is your last

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of...

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of...

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation,...

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation,...

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but,...

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but,...

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to...

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to...