- Horace
(12/08/0065 – 11/27/0008 BC)
Italian writer
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| Died 12/07 | Died 12/08 | Died 12/09 | Death Dates |
"Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect."
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"I could follow him around the world in my shift."
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"There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them."
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"The hardest stones, by degrees, give way to the touch of air."
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in
honour of a critic."
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"It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude."
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"I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later."
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| "Religions change; beer and wine remain." |
| "American students are like American colleges—each has half-dulled faculties." |  |
| "We all want to play romantic figures. But because I lost my hair I was stuck playing butchers and crooks." |  |
| "Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn." |
"You want to see the boy next door?...(then) don't go see Michael Jackson, because he ain't the boy next door."
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"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."
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"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."
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"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning."
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"I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately that's never turned out to be the case."
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"I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care."
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"Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster."
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"Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that's what they should be. You shouldn't be beating yourself up."
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"What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear."
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| Born 12/07 | Born 12/08 | Born 12/09 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 12/07 | Died 12/08 | Died 12/09 | Death Dates |