Anger Quote by Horace Download Open image “What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anger Complaining Complaints Crime Cutting Ifs Offense Punishment
Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is distressing. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense. — Solomon Copy Share Image
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal? — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies… — Johannes Voet Copy Share Image
You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely… — Kofi Annan 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
“If I let myself think of it the pain and anger were still fresh, adrenalin racing down my limbs to pool, hot and itchy,… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
My care will be in the heart n not in words My anger will be in Words n not in the Heart — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
