Horace Quotes

You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.

We have a ridiculous amount of material.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

Less is not more. More is more.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Wine is connected to abundance.

You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

My relief of mind would be tremendous if we just had too much of something besides patriotism and spirit.

I had more money than I could spend in million lifetimes.

It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!

The superfluous is the most necessary.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.

The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Where there is abundance you can afford waste.

Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.