Horae Quotes & Sayings

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
[Lat., Horae
Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace

A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar. — Heather O'Neill

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write. — Patti Smith

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed — Sunday Adelaja

Size and strength are not the answer to everything. Cleverness can overcome strength nearly every time. A small clever man can almost always best a strong, dim one. — Mercedes Lackey

If what we're doing is good, why does it smell so lancingly bad? On the ramp at night, why do we feel the ungainsayable need to get so brutishly drunk? Why did we make the meadow churn and spit? The flies as fat as blackberries, the vermin, the diseases, ach, scheusslich, schmierig - why? Why do rats fetch 5 bread rations per cob? Why did the lunatics, and only the lunatics, seem to like it here? Why, here, do conception and gestation promise not new life but certain death for both woman and child? Ach, why all der Dreck, der Sumpf, der Schleim? Why do we turn the snow brown? Why do we do that? Make the snow look like the shit of angels. Why do we do that? — Martin Amis

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting. — Dan Millman

A day is a miniature eternity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German. — Bruno Tonioli

Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously. — Annie Chapman

I'd never be unfaithful to my wife for the reason that I love my house very much. — Bob Monkhouse

I decided to find you, throw myself at your feet, and beg you to have mercy on me. Honestly, I'll accept whatever you choose, Kelsey. Just don't ask me to live apart from you again. Because ... I can't. — Colleen Houck

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed. — Pat Morita

Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward. — Elizabeth Warren

In a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste. — Diana Wynne Jones