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• It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
• Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt.
  (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them...
• Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods. -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Ars Poetica, 359
• If you wish me to weep, you yourself must feel grief. -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Ars Poetica, 102
• The mountains will be in labour; an absurd mouse will be born.
  -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Ars Poetica, 139...
• Anger is brief lunacy. HORACE
• Whatever your advice, make it brief. -- Horace