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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4...
HORACE Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
GILBERT WEST I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS It certainly seems to be seriously at odds with the nation's public statements about its plans.
JOSEPH FINNERTY The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us...
LILLIAN HELLMAN When you meet someone you want to know, be very careful on how you sit on the driving seat to examin...
UZOMA NNADI The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us f...
LILLIAN HELLMAN You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Do you feel like your action plans are stronger to than your capability? Just take a moment a draw a...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will...
GERMANY KENT Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON They can rip you bring you down, down to their size, but they will never get to the heart you hold i...
LITTLE MIX This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS When I look at you And the world's all right with me Just one look at you And I know it's gonna be A...
BILL WITHERS The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.
GENE WEINGARTEN From auto, property and life insurance to retirement annuities, Horace Mann is dedicated to helping ...
DOUG REYNOLDS How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living compan...
GEORGE ELIOT When a lion shines its teeth, it would be foolishness for you to think it is smiling..
OLASOT This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I need a little bit of an attitude adjustment at the moment, ... My attitude should be a lot better ...
BRAD BRYANT One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
D.H. LAWRENCE Imagine if your plans for the future aligned with God's plans. Wouldn't that be amazing
WALTER CROMARTIE JR Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act
Just never forg...
DR. SEUSS The essence of acting is that stage time is always now. You must be involved with communicating this...
TONY NOICE Renault plans to be closer to the Jordanian market to better understand it and offer the right produ...
ANTOINE HERTEMAN Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out...
STARHAWK Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly aga...
MIKE MYERS It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.
DOUG DAVIDSON When I look at you
And the world's all right with me
Just one look at you
And I know it'...
BILL WITHERS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware t...
JOANNE LIU Gratitude simply means using the little resources you've got at the moment to propel your success.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of wh...
BRUCE LEE I think I lost my concentration a little bit, but I came back at the right time. It was a serious si...
KATERINA KUDLACKOVA Every moment can change. It launches from high comedy to serious matter. There are the comic element...
CHRISTINE SEITZ Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.
GARTH STEIN Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
BALTASAR GRACIAN In case you have lost your years in the wrong path, pursuing a goal that has nothing to do with your...
SUNDAY ADELAJA You find the right mix [of products and services] by being responsive to your customers.
ANNE MULCAHY The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
RICHARD BACH When I look at youAnd the world's all right with meJust one look at youAnd I know it's gonna beA lov...
BILL WITHERS If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
ZOHAR If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
ZOHAR Make peace with your now moment. Live in this very moment and be happy with what you have. Joy enter...
ANGIE KARAN He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
SOURCE UNKNOWN He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
ANONYMOUS If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your tho...
RICHARD MITCHELL Davina played in a very challenging slot. It's right for BBC One to take risks and I'm glad we did i...
PETER FINCHAM First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE He looked a nice horse on the day and he won well. There are no plans for him at the moment, but he ...
FRANK BERRY I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
DAVID NICHOLLS The moment your dreams and your revelation take a special direction while your plans and actions tak...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
UZO ADUBA I am a little cautious with him at the moment because he had a few setbacks.
ARSENE WENGER Every morning, appreciate the golden glowing sun for giving you life. Every evening, appreciate your...
DEBASISH MRIDHA The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us fundamentals laws of nature and b...
ANUJ SOMANY This race should give us some confidence, ... We know we can run with them (Mountain View). When we ...
JUSTIN TAYLOR For the currency there is little reaction given that its strength is not dependent on the domestic e...
CLIFFORD BENNETT You have to be smart, you need to be at the right moment but not by chance
MICHAEL GONZALEZ VASQUEZ Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at a...
MICHAEL MORPURGO If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to b...
JANE SMILEY That taught us how to block a sword with two knives. But what if an ax man's coming at me?"
Gi...
JOHN FLANAGAN You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.
EARL NIGHTINGALE You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.''
EARL NIGHTINGALE Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left. DR. SEUSS If the injury is serious he will surely have to alter his plans.
ERIC ZHANG Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely se...
INGMAR BERGMAN You don't have to slay a dragon to be perceived a hero - smiling at someone at the right moment migh...
JURY NEL The world is full of fools and foolishness; the mission of every clever man is to watch the fools fr...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
NED VIZZINI Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise.
Did that hurt?" Ha...
JOHN FLANAGAN When your gut tells you - get serious. As far as business plans, I'm not a fan of them. Business is ...
LILY CHATTERJEE Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at la...
ROBERT FARRAR CAPON Older women are like aging strudels-the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last...
ROBERT FARRAR CAPON We got a lot of guys in the mix at defensive tackle right now so we're not even 100 percent sure who...
TOM ALLEN Every moment is the right moment”. The right one is NOW. Seize it and make the most of it. Don’t...
LATIKA TEOTIA Live in the moment... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON You have to have a sense of humor. Countering a novel and a movie is a little bit like fighting agai...
BRIAN FINNERTY Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your pot...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Is he laughing with you or at you? If you have to ask then likely your being laughed at
BRENT M. JONES At any point God can change his plans for your life when he decides your life purpose needs to be pr...
SHANNON L. ALDER The one serious doubt is Ruud. It's looking very doubtful for him at the moment,
ALEX FERGUSON She sat at the little table, her expression like that of a child digesting failed plans.
R.J. LAWRENCE I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting peopl...
IMELDA MAY Clapping with the right hand only will not produce a noise
MALAYAN PROVERB A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished
THE TALMUD A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Make use of every moment .There is no second chance. Stop waiting things to be happened. Make out th...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI 7 Rules to a Happy Life:

1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to...
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HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
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HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
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HORACE Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
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HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HORACE Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
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HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
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HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
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HORACE Anger is short madness
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HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
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HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
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HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
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The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
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HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
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HORACE I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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HORACE Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
HORACE I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
HORACE The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poe...
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
HORACE Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
HORACE He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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HORACE Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
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HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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HORACE Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
HORACE In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
HORACE Buy the rumor and sell the fact
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HORACE The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at
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HORACE He who is greedy is always in want.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
HORACE Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
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HORACE It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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HORACE Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
HORACE Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...
HORACE The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous ...
HORACE Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
HORACE To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come a...
HORACE The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
HORACE Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
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HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
HORACE Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
HORACE Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
HORACE I will not add another word.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be...
HORACE Faults are soon copied.
HORACE In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HORACE In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
HORACE A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doi...
HORACE The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
HORACE You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m...
HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
HORACE The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
HORACE Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HORACE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
HORACE I shall not altogether die.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
HORACE Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine
HORACE Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it ...
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