| "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." Horace |
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"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."
Lat., "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow." Horace |
| "He has the deed half done who has made a beginning." Horace |
"Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal." Horace |
| A good scare is worth more than good advice. Horace Remarks |
| A jest often decides matters of importance more effectually and happily than seriousness Horace Remarks |
| A picture is a poem without words. Horace |
| A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. Horace Remarks |
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| A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose Fortune does not suit them. Horace Adages |
| A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably. Horace Quotations |
| Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace Sayings |
| Anger is a brief madness. Horace |
| Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. Horace Popular Quotes |
| Anger is short madness Horace Adages |
| Anger is short-lived madness. Horace |
| Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. Horace |
| Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale Horace |
| Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. Horace |
| Better to accept whatever happens. Horace |
| Black Care takes her seat behind the horseman. Horace |
| Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.) Horace Popular Quotes |
| But if Homer, who is good, nods for a moment, I think it a shame. Horace Sayings |
| But if you place me among the lyric bards, I shall touch the stars with my exalted head. Horace Quotations |
| Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. Horace |
| Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow) Horace |
| Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. Horace |
| Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. Horace |
| Death's boatman takes no bribe Horace |
| Don't think, just do. Horace Quotes |
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
The false refinements that would keep her out.
Horace |
| Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away) Horace |
| Every old poem is sacred. Horace Quotes |
| Ex-soldiers have been here before they tell their stories. They just want a story to tell their family, or their little grand kids when they grow up, Horace |
| Fools, through false shame, conceal their open wounds. Horace Sayings |
| For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire. Horace |
| Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. Horace Popular Quotes |
| Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who secure within can say: Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Horace Adages |
| He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it already. Horace Remarks |
| He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. Horace |
| He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. Horace Remarks |
| He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass Horace Quotations |
| He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. Horace Remarks |
| He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. Horace |
| He who is greedy is always in want. Horace |
| He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Horace |
| He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure. Horace Quotations |
| He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. Horace Sayings |
| Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him Horace |
| Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him. Horace Quotes |
| How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course? Horace |
| I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. Horace Popular Quotes |
| I shall not altogether die. Horace |
| I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. Horace Quotes |
| In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war Horace Quotations |
| In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. Horace |
| In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. Horace Remarks |
| In the word of no master am I bound to believe. Horace |
| It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way Horace Adages |
| It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. Horace |
| It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. Horace Popular Quotes |
| It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. Horace Adages |
| It's sweet to be silly when the time's right Horace Adages |
| Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. Horace Quotations |
| Let him who has enough wish for nothing more. Horace |
| Let it not be published until the ninth year. Horace |
| Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day. Horace Quotes |
| Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Horace Popular Quotes |
| Life is largely a matter of expectation. Horace Remarks |
| Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. Horace |
| Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. Horace |
| Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. Horace |
| Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. Horace |
| Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. To forget it in due place is sweet. Horace Quotations |
| Mistakes are their own instructors Horace Quotes |
| Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27) Horace Popular Quotes |
| Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment Horace |
| Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse. Horace |
| Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. Horace |
| Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. Horace Adages |
| Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying Horace |
| Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. Horace |
| One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. Horace |
| Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. Horace |
| Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. Horace |
| Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. Horace |
| Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. Horace |
| Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Horace Quotes |
| Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance Horace Remarks |
| Remember to preserve an even mind in adverse circumstances, and likewise in prosperity a mind free from overweening joy. Horace |
| Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar. Horace |
| Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. Horace |
| Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow. Horace Remarks |
| Subdue your passion or it will subdue you Horace Adages |
| Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. Horace |
| That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. Horace |
| The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. Horace Remarks |
| The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself Horace |
| The covetous man is ever in want. Horace Popular Quotes |
| The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. Horace Sayings |
| The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. Horace |
| The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. Horace Popular Quotes |
| The pleasure of eating is not in the costly flavor but in yourself. Horace |
| The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. Horace Adages |
| There is measure in all things. Horace |
| Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release. Horace Adages |
| This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist. Horace |
| This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Horace |
| To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise. Horace |
| To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him. Horace |
| Tomorrow we take our course once more over the mighty seas. Horace |
| Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. Horace Sayings |
| Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were Horace Popular Quotes |
| What's well begun, is half done. Horace |
| Whatever advice you give, be brief. Horace Adages |
| Whatever advice you give, be short. Horace |
| Whatever your advice, make it brief Horace |
| Whatever your advice, make it brief. Horace Quotes |
When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
As the ruins crushed him he would not fear. Horace |
| When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed. Horace Sayings |
| When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. Horace |
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. Horace Quotations |
| Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe. Horace Quotes |
| Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Horace |
| Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? Horace |
| Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace Sayings |
With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis) Horace |
Years, following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
Horace Sayings |
| You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. Horace |
| You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart. Horace Remarks |
| You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. Horace Sayings |
| You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. Horace |
| You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. Horace |
| You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform. Horace |
| Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze Horace |
| [Latin: Omnes una manet nox Et calcanda semel via leti] Horace |
