Horace Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

  Horace

  Latin, Wrinkles, Years

• What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

  Horace

  Evil, Age, Wickedness

  "Carmina", I. 35. 34, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 239-41, 1922.

• In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

  Horace

  Writing, Apology, Thinking

• We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

  Horace

  Life, Inspire, Age

  "Satires" by Horace, Book I, satire i, line 117, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

• Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

  Horace

  Hair, Years, Tears

  Horace (1938). “The Complete Works of Horace”

• Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

  Horace

  Son, Giving, Age

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

• It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
  [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . .
  Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

  Horace

  Laughing, Age, Gone

• Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
  Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

  Horace

  Boys, Men, Anxiety

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

• Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
  [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus
  Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

  Horace

  Wings, Peaceful, Black

• 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.

  Horace

  Parent, Age, Doe

• My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

  Horace

  Age, Inclination

• Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

  Horace

  Wrinkles, Age, Encroachment

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