Horace Quotes

Gold--the picklock that never fails.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Money is the key that opens all locks.

When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

Any fortress can be stormed provided there is a way up for a donkey with a load of gold on his back.

When you have an almost unlimited amount of money, you can pay people to do almost anything.

A millionaire can buy a Senate seat just as he would buy an opera box or a yacht or any other luxury in which he can afford to indulge himself. In some instances the sale takes the form of open bribery of the legislators; more often the Senate seat was simply the satisfaction of a ‘claim’ acknowledged by the leaders of the party and created by large contributions to the party treasury.

Money speaks in Utah.

Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.

Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.

The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign finance reform would be irrelevant. After all, why would anyone spend money for influence, access, favors and tribute if the only thing that politicians do is to live up to their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution?

The real yellow peril: Gold.

It's amazing how fast gold works.