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A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
THOMAS HOOD A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled
SPANISH PROVERB The spoken word cannot be recalled but the written word leaves evidence.
QUINN STILLETTO To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meanin...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD But words once spoke can never be recalled
WENTWORTH DILLON Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
MARTIN AMIS Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fle...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO This is the first time a Hoover product has been recalled.
KAREN LYNN Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
P.L. TRAVERS Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood ha...
TERRY PRATCHETT I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching fo...
MILTON BERLE As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cann...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the f...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedie...
PEARL BUCK Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedie...
PEARL S. BUCK Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedi...
PEARL S. BUCK I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a s...
MILTON BERLE I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a ...
MILTON BERLE I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a ...
MILTON BERLE I'd rather be a 'could-be' if I cannot be an 'are' because a 'could-be' is a 'maybe' who is reaching...
MILTON BERLE Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person yo...
DAVE SIM This practice cannot be allowed to continue.
RAY HOLLOWAY The international community hopes that once the process has been launched it cannot be stopped, but ...
BLERIM SHALA The very word, “sin,” which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a stro...
KARL MENNINGER No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he ...
HOMER As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cann...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Hope for the best, ‘never’ prepare for the rest, and treat yourself as present’s guest.
ANUROOP TYAGI I've been blessed. God has allowed me to keep my voice ... but it's a lot lower than it used to be.
EZRA HILL There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once a...
KEVIN MCCARTHY The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. Y...
UMBERTO ECO We were allowed into places that nobody has ever been allowed to shoot before.
LASSE HALLSTROM We were allowed into places that nobody has ever been allowed to shoot before,
LASSE HALLSTROM A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER A word uttered cannot be taken back
AFRICAN PROVERB Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back&#...
DAVE SIM The word of God will be fulfilled, it cannot be denied
SUNDAY ADELAJA Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.
JIM CALLAGHAN Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYDOR DOSTOEVSKY We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, some...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Time. Never has such a vaulable comodity been allowed to tick away.
JAIME CONTRERAS Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
OVID Time flies never to be recalled.
VIRGIL Time flies never to be recalled.
UNKNOWN You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT It was especially important that someone who has been subjected to such an incredible amount of inte...
LAURA JOPLIN Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it ...
WAYNE NEWTON A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerat...
YOSHIHIKO NODA As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of...
ALBERTO MANGUEL He has been the person that allowed that to happen,
ANDREW BARTLETT It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young.
MARK TWAIN Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You c...
ROY T. BENNETT [Letterman recalled how Carson was asked once by a] Tonight ... I started out in a gaseous state and...
JOHNNY CARSON Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.
SLICK RICK You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution...
TONY HAWK He hasn't been allowed to come to the showroom because I wanted it to be a surprise.
GAVIN ROSSDALE Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape eve...
JOHN VARVATOS Once I committed to acting, this has been it.
ERNIE HUDSON It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You cannot forever escape from the storm; you must learn to stand up to it!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Ignorance is a sickness every person should avoid.. as once you are infected by it.. it becomes a mo...
MANOS ABOU CHABKE You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that yo...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We cannot escape this global problem.
DR. MASA NARITA Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
HOMER We allowed too many easy opportunities. It's something we've been harping on the last few games. Unf...
TYRONN LUE When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to esc...
JAMES BAMFORD He was reluctant to open it, for once such a thing is opened, it cannot be shut again.
ALAN PATON Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. W...
VASHTI QUIROZ-VEGA Every one of these bombings sets us back, ... terror cannot be allowed to prevail, to win.
COLIN POWELL You cannot expect people who have broken their spine once or twice to stand up straight when a new d...
CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it ha...
MAX HEINDEL Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday
YIDDISH PROVERB “How would you know if a promise cannot be carried out? When there's a word 'forever' in it...”
JOHN B. BEJO If people are going to be allowed to say "we love you" and "I love you", they'd better have the back...
C. JOYBELL C. The Word Love Has Been So Watered Down. It's Nothing More A Controversy On What Burning Forest It Sh...
SUSIE L HILL A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which...
LEMONY SNICKET For six years, Belgrade has been allowed to partition Kosovo at the Ibar
ALEX ANDERSON Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so cor...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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HORACE Don't think, just do.
HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
HORACE The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Wh...
HORACE A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
HORACE Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make m...
HORACE One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by differ...
HORACE You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and do...
HORACE Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as ga...
HORACE He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
HORACE A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with th...
HORACE Labor diligently to increase your property.
HORACE Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who...
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
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.
HORACE Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
HORACE You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers...
HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
HORACE One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instr...
HORACE Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
HORACE How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which c...
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?
HORACE Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...
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...
HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
HORACE The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
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.
HORACE A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
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.
HORACE He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot...
HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
HORACE Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they wi...
HORACE The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the light...
HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
HORACE Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity ...
HORACE Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up,...
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
HORACE Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
HORACE This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are a...
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
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.
HORACE What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
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.
HORACE In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns up...
HORACE Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
HORACE Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction a...
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.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain d...
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
HORACE No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slo...
HORACE The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at
HORACE It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...
HORACE Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of w...
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.
HORACE It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the ...
HORACE Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, be...
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.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dor...
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 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)
HORACE There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right canno...
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 ...
HORACE A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE