Top 927 Quotes & Sayings by Horace - Page 4

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

I was what you are, you will be what I am.

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

Better to accept whatever happens.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.

What's well begun is half done.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Who's started has half finished.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

Don't long for the unripe grape.

He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

Work at it night and day.

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitt'ring all his state.