Bliss Quote by Horace Download Open image “Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bliss Clear Court Happiness Homely Kings Law Life Monarchs
“Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by. — George VI Copy Share Image
“history informs us that the passage of dethroned monarchs is short from prison to the grave.”18” — Harlow Giles Unger Copy Share Image
“Guard your integrity, attain toward maturity, develop a character of nobility, and live above mediocrity” — Donald Pillai Copy Share Image
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“In effect, what is a courtier? He is a man whom the misfortune of kings and people has placed betwixt the sovereign and truth… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
“The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise authority yet… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“To render the kings and higher nobility still more exclusive, they had a court language which was understood only by themselves, and which was… — King David Kalakaua Copy Share Image
The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.” — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
“He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.” — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss! — Sivananda Copy Share Image
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image