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The word once spoken flies beyond recall.
HORACE A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.
RUSSIAN PROVERB The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
EDWARD BOND Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
PLATEN An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
HENRY WOTTON, SR. An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
HENRY WOTTON SR. The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. [Lat., Fama volat parvam s...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
BIBLE My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably brande...
SUZANNE COLLINS An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
HENRY WOTTON Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath eve...
BIBLE With the huge amount of money that Japanese sent abroad, repatriation flows could have a major effec...
YUJI SAITO We have become irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN We are still on that path, and irrevocably committed to it.
ROWAN WILLIAMS Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.
HAROLD HOLZER An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without ...
HENRY WOTTON, SR. An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without ...
HENRY WOTTON SR. Time passes irrevocably.
VIRGIL He is the English Horace,
ALEXANDER POPE Once the letter is sent, the player is out.
STEVE ALIC That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a sp...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bo...
SIR HENRY WOTTON A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
THOMAS HOOD I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all lef...
MARK TWAIN A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE The very word, “sin,” which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a stro...
KARL MENNINGER Despite the restrictions, we are safe within (the Box). But – and here is the problem – once we ...
HEIDI REAGAN The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
THOMAS CARLYLE We have already passed legislation in the House -- we've sent it to Mr. Daschle not once, but we've ...
JC WATTS I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
HAROLD HOLZER Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
GROUCHO MARX Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
GROUCHO MARX Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
GROUCHO MARX Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
UNKNOWN AUTHOR Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.
TERRY WOGAN astro abroad https://www.kartohome.com/astrology/abroad-yog-in-kundli astro abroad services for, ast...
KARTOASTRO I try to do yoga once a week.
ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO These passive investments abroad by Filipinos will come back once the country succeeds in carrying o...
ERNESTO HERRERA Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to ...
BIBLE To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]
GEORGE HERBERT It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence! - Horace Smith and James Smith,
HORACE SMITH AND JAMES SMITH Oh! that the memories which survive us here Were half so lovely as these wings of thine! Pure...
CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and I, How he crawls Up the walls ...
THEODORE TILTON Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Coul...
WILLIAM OLDYS A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "what a dust I raise."
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.
ROBERT HERRICK The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
JOHN GAY Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermos...
BIBLE We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monume...
FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, W...
FRANCIS BACON We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
FRANCIS BACON Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold
MARTY RUBIN Dr. Rice, we only swatted a fly once on the 20th of August, 1998. We didn't swat any flies afterward...
BOB KERREY Mikeru was still puzzling over Horace's last remark. He frowned. 'Kurokuma, these shenanigans... Wha...
JOHN FLANAGAN A word said once means alot..said twice means nothing, I LOVE YOU
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN [Motor racing has been] damaged, maybe irrevocably so in North America
FRANK WILLIAMS My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST We sent a preliminary interest e-mail out to some students about this group, and we hope to get more...
LINDSEY MORDEN Once they are sent home, they will try to come back in. They'll use the same smugglers.
FRANK JOHNSTON We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spok...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
JANE AUSTEN Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Every living word that gives life was once without form.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
VIRGIL The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, dear, Are y...
MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was ...
DAVID SANBORN Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
VICTOR J. STENGER O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spok...
WALTER SCOTT Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them...
JAMES NASMYTH Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise.
Did that hurt?" Ha...
JOHN FLANAGAN Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He ad...
JOHN FLANAGAN Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Time flies never to be recalled.
VIRGIL You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more ...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH He legally and irrevocably assigned them and he receives no tax benefit from them,
DICK CHENEY O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at ran...
SIR WALTER SCOTT A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies.
FRENCH PROVERB A closed mouth catches no flies
FRENCH PROVERB One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocabl...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."

I...
HORACE Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.'
'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we hav...
JOHN FLANAGAN I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong w...
MARK BURNETT I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
GRIFFIN DUNNE (I will only return to Germany) once the decision-makers are convinced that I am the right man with ...
LOTHAR MATTHAEUS O!, many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at rando...
SIR WALTER SCOTT They are like flies. They fly in an out.
MIKE DITKA They just all went down like flies, all six of them.
MYFANWY MARSHALL It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh a...
HAROLD HOLZER It does last," Horace said. "Spring does. You'd almost think there was some purpose to it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

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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 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)
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 ...
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