Quotes by Horace Gregory
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
With silence favor me.
We are free to yield to truth.
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Anger is a short madness. Anger
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Work
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Life's brief span [vitae summa brevis] forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.
The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
