Horace Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

  Horace

  Courage, Adversity, Blood

• 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

  Hurt, Eye, Years

• Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

  Horace

  Death, Kings, Men

• Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

• Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

  Horace

  Time, Past, Weight Loss

• A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

  Horace

  Change, Heart, Adversity

• The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

  Horace

  Fall, Fate, Light

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Carmina, II. 10. 9, 1922.

• If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

  Horace

  Worry, Anxiety, Eulogy

  "Carmina", II. 10. 17, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 93-96, 1922.

• You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

  Horace

  Running, Nature, Romance

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 10, l. 24

• Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

  Horace

  Knowledge, Literature, Injustice

• Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

  Horace

  Death, Running, Law

• Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

  Horace

  Thinking, Literature, May

• 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

  Pride, Vices, Purpose

• Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

  Horace

  Writing, Parent, Literature

• In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode iii, line 1, c. 23 BC and 13 BC).

• A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

  Horace

  Literature

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.269

• Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

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  Mistress, Use, Literature

• We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

  Horace

  Literature, Crime, Disgrace

• Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

  Horace

  Anger, Men, Literature

• It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

  Horace

  Wall, Business, Fire

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 18, l. 84

• No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

  Horace

  Long, Giving, Water

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 19, l. 1

• If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

  Horace

  Grief, Literature, Firsts

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

• 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

  Stupid, Water, Literature

• Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

  Horace

  Eye, Years, Literature

• He's arm'd without that's innocent within;
  Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

  Horace

  Wall, Literature, Innocence

  "Imitations of Horace: With An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and the Epilogue to the Satires".

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