Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

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• When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beautiful
  • Stupid
  • Problems

• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Parents
  • Lessons
  • Expected

• Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Learned
  • Birthdays
  • Boyhood

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Live
  • Small

• I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Day
  • Jesus
  • Stupid

• I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Beauty
  • Acting
  • Learned

• You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • You
  • Morning
  • Stupid

• I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Learned
  • Used
  • Maniacal

• This is stupid. I now have stupid all over me.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Stupid

• That’s a whole new type of stupid.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Stupid

• The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• I'd rather go ice fishing, which is the dumbest thing a man can do. You're sitting essentially in an out house and it's 30 below. You've cut a hole in the ice, and you're fishing for fish that you shouldn't eat, ‘cause any fish that is down there is fucking stupid.

  

  Lewis Black
  • House
  • Stupid
  • Fishing

• People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • People
  • World
  • Stupid

• No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Stupid

• I was stupid when I started: the epitome of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. It was like, 'I get to live in L.A. and drive around in limos? Really?' I didn't realize I was owned. The more money gets pumped into you, the more you become a marionette. It made me a true redneck in attitude: I never wanted to wake up ever again feeling owned.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Live
  • Money
  • Attitude

• I've got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in love with that.

  

  Jason Mitchell
  • Stupid

• Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

  

  Lynda Resnick
  • People
  • Why
  • Stupid

• I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.

  

  Donald Pleasence
  • Different
  • Stupid
  • Halloween

• Let optimists rule the world.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • Rule
  • Optimistic

• We also live in a structured society in which building relationships is not as important as task accomplishment, in which it is appropriate and expected that the subordinate does more asking than telling, while the boss does more telling that asking. Having to ask is a sign of weakness or ignorance, so we avoid it as much as possible.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Society
  • Ignorance
  • Relationships

• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Like
  • Religious
  • Religion

• There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

  

  Horace
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