Quotes by Horace Gregory
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Wisdom
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Every old poem is sacred.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
Faults are soon copied.
