What did Horace mean by: A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. - Horace Copy
+ Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Grief, Joy, 0 - Horace
+ Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Fortune, Wealth, 0 - Horace
+ Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Equal, 0 - Horace
+ When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Atheism, Fear, War, 0 - Horace
+ Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Capture, Dull, 0 - Horace
+ Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Alarms, Liars, 0 - Horace
+ Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Legs, Track, 0 - Horace
+ Boys must not have th’ ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Anxiety, Boys, 0 - Horace
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese. - Jeremy Paxman Journalist · United Kingdom
When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight. - Jerome Lawrence Playwright · USA
This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade. - Jerry Falwell
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice. - William McIlvanney Author · Scotland
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid. - William Moore Kelly
Men’s happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror - François Rabelais Author · France
