"I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty. [Lat., Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea Virtute me involvo, probamque Pauperiem sine dote quaero.]"

-- Horace

#Wings Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.”
“I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.”
“After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.”
“If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.”
“Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter how hard-earned, allows me only a crumbling foothold on this steepening climbâ€”an ascent whose milestones are fear and doubt.”
“Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.”
“Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.”
“There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.”

Source : George Gillespie (1846). “The Presbyterian's Armoury”

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