Horace Quotes - Page 10

Quotes about:

• Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

  Horace

  Gratitude

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

  7 Copy quote

• Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

  Horace

  Distance, Pieces, Fancy

  Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

  7 Copy quote

• The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

  Horace

  Latin, Again And Again, Pleasant

  15 Copy quote

• Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

  Horace

  Punishment, Guilt, Companion

  9 Copy quote

• Don't waste the opportunity.

  Horace

  Latin, Opportunity, Waste

  8 Copy quote

• The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

  Horace

  Light, Now And Then

  5 Copy quote

• It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

  Horace

  Health, Exercise, Trying

  10 Copy quote

• It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

  Horace

  Gay, Good Things

  18 Copy quote

• Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

  Horace

  Liars, Alarms, Doe

  4 Copy quote

• Words challenge eternity.

  Horace

  Challenges, Eternity

  Horace (1733). “Q. Horatii Flacci de Arte Poetica liber ... Horace's treatise concerning the Art of Poetry; together with notes critical, historical, and poetical, by the Earl of Roscommon”, p.29

  5 Copy quote

• Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

  Horace

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Epistles bk. 1, no. 18, l. 71

  4 Copy quote

• It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

  Horace

  Men, Every Man

  5 Copy quote

• Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

  Horace

  Teacher, Want, Teach

  8 Copy quote

• With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  Horace

  Self, Discipline, Mind

  14 Copy quote

• It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

  Horace

  Wall, Fire, Neighbor

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle xviii, line 84, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

  15 Copy quote

• He is not poor who has a competency.

  Horace

  Poor, Competencies

  6 Copy quote

• I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

  Horace

  Political, Fickle, Politics

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, I. 19. 37,

  7 Copy quote

• As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

  Horace

  Care, Riches, Consumerism

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

  4 Copy quote

• Poets wish to profit or to please.

  Horace

  Wish, Literature, Poet

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

  9 Copy quote

• The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

  Horace

  Sin, Virtue, Refrain

  5 Copy quote

• An accomplished man to his fingertips.

  Horace

  Men, Fingertips, Accomplished

  'Satires' bk. 1, no. 5, l. 32

  11 Copy quote

• Make a good use of the present.

  Horace

  Time, Use, Time Management

  7 Copy quote

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

  Horace

  Giving, Propriety, Ifs

  16 Copy quote

• He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever.
  [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam
  Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
  Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

  Horace

  Life, Rivers, Waiting

  11 Copy quote

• Don't just put it off and think about it!

  Horace

  Thinking, Charity, Philanthropy

  Daniel H. Garrison, Horace (1998). “Horace: Epodes and Odes”, p.335, University of Oklahoma Press

  13 Copy quote

Page 10 of 36

First

← Prev

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin