Horace Quotes - Page 29

Quotes about:

• Brighter than Parian marble.

  Horace

  Marble, Brighter

  Horace (1843). “The Odes of Horace, Translated by J. Scriven”, p.37

  5 Copy quote

• The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

  Horace

  Heaven, Doe, Praise

  8 Copy quote

• The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

  Horace

  Mind, Excess, Body

  5 Copy quote

• Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

  Horace

  Mad, Insanity, Spares

  8 Copy quote

• It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

  Horace

  Hero, Differences, Oratory

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, CXIV,

  73 Copy quote

• Take heed lest you stumble.

  Horace

  Heed

  5 Copy quote

• The bowl dispels corroding cares.

  Horace

  Care, Bowls

  6 Copy quote

• Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

  Horace

  Fall, Weight, Judgment

  5 Copy quote

• Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

  Horace

  Men, Tales, Inquisitive

  5 Copy quote

• Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

  Horace

  Morrow

  5 Copy quote

• Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

  Horace

  Pleasure, Source

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Ars Poetica, 338, 1922.

  9 Copy quote

• Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

  Horace

  Sports, War, Wrath

  10 Copy quote

• Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
  The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

  Horace

  Men, Effort, Rewards

  4 Copy quote

• Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.

  Horace

  Rain, Fall, Sea

  5 Copy quote

• Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

  Horace

  Noble, Wealth, Descent

  "Satires", II. 5. 8, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

  8 Copy quote

• To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

  Horace

  Happiness, Men, Way

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 6, l. 1

  5 Copy quote

• Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

  Horace

  Gold, Silver, Virtue

  5 Copy quote

• Busy idleness urges us on.

  Horace

  Busy, Urges, Idleness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 384-85, Epistles, Book I, XI. 28, 1922.

  9 Copy quote

• To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

  Horace

  Jobs, Half, Sensible

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 40

  5 Copy quote

• Drawing is the true test of art.

  Horace

  Art, Drawing, Tests

  9 Copy quote

• Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

  Horace

  Hours, Accepting, Gladness

  "Horace, the Odes and Epodes: With an English Translation".

  4 Copy quote

• If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

  Horace

  Nature, Way, Pitchforks

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

  53 Copy quote

• That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

  Horace

  Sloth, Sirens, Laziness

  "Satires". II. 3. 14,

  13 Copy quote

• Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

  Horace

  Country, Sweet, Glorious

  Horace (1893). “The Works of Horace”

  5 Copy quote

• I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

  Horace

  Obscure, Strive, Miscellaneous

  'Ars Poetica' l. 25

  4 Copy quote

Page 29 of 36

First

← Prev

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin