Horace Quotes

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.

You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI.

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

He who flees proves himself guilty.

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]

I’m sorry, dear, but I must go to jail.

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

Being booked for simulation is never good.

It is just as painful to me when I do poorly. If the fault is all mine, that's what's painful. If it's a situation where no one could have succeeded, I don't feel as bad.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That's like I wrote a joke that didn't work, but now I have to tell it for a year.

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.