Horace Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

  Horace

  Wine, Water, Drinkers

• No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

  Horace

  Food, Water, Long

• 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

• Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

  Horace

  Strong, Wine, Boys

• The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

  Horace

  Stupid, Water, Literature

• It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

  Horace

  Running, Wine, Water

• This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Prayer, Spring

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