Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Quote by Horace

Topics: Wisdom Quotes

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Men cease to think when they think they know it all.

Men cease to think when they think they know it all.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

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

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you

Anger is a brief madness.

Anger is a brief madness.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

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

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

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy...

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy...

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing...

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing...

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the...

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the...

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

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

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

Don't think, just do.

Don't think, just do.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

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

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

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never...

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never...