Horace Quotes

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.

I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

This is one doodle that can't be un-did, Homeskillet.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Hell itself is truth known too late

I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I didn't see. Hearts that I hurt needlessly. Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don't make no difference: The past can't be rewritten. You get the life you're given.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.