Sayings and Quotes

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Faults are soon copied.

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.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Anger is a brief madness.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Every old poem is sacred.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

A picture is a poem without words.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Art is long, life is short.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Gold will be slave or master.