Quotes by Horace Gregory
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)
A picture is a poem without words. Art
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. Poetry
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
