Horace Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• 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.

• Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

  Horace

  Mountain, Lightning, Strikes

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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

  Horace

  Mountain, Littles, Birth

• Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

  Horace

  Stupid, Silly, Mountain

  'Ars Poetica' l. 139

• What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
  [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
  Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

  Horace

  Mountain, Ridiculous, Born

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