Quotes by Horace Gregory
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Labor diligently to increase your property.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.
To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Don't think, just do.
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
There is measure in all things.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
