Horace Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Whatever advice you give, be short.

  Horace

  Funny, Giving, Advice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Ars Poetica, CCCXXXV, 1922.

• Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

  Horace

  Wine, Mean, Light

• 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

• "Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

  Horace

  Giving, Liberty, Poet

• 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 it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

  Horace

  Kings, Feet, Giving

• That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

  Horace

  Giving, Poetry, Pleasure

  'Odes' bk. 4, no. 3, l. 24

• In giving advice I advise you, be short.

  Horace

  Giving, Advice, Giving Advice

• Life gives nothing to man without labor.

  Horace

  Life, Men, Giving

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

  Horace

  Money, Powerful, Giving

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

  Horace

  Giving, Propriety, Ifs

• Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

  Horace

  Two, Purple, Giving

  "Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)". Poem by Horace (line 14), circa 18 BC.

• Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and
  whatever days fortune will give, count them
  as profit.

  Horace

  Giving, Asking, Tomorrow

• 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”

• Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

  Horace

  Men, Hands, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 133-36, Carmina, III. 16. 42, 1922.

• Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

  Horace

  Heart, Wine, Thinking

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.143, Penguin UK

• He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

  Horace

  Sea, Names, Wings

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 387-88, Carmina, IV, 2, 1, 1922.

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