Horace Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

  Horace

  Life, World, Birth

• Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

  Horace

  Ciphers, Earth, Fruit

• Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
  [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
  Fortuna non mutat genus.]

  Horace

  Money, Proud, Birth

• The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

  Horace

  Mountain, Littles, Birth

• Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

  Horace

  Evil, Grandparent, Bears

• Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

  Horace

  Fall, Joy, Birth

• A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

  Horace

  Money, Men, Wife

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.365, Delphi Classics

• Luck cannot change birth.

  Horace

  Luck, Birth

• All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
  [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

  Horace

  Money, Powerful, Giving

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