Quotes By Horace

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

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

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

I teach that all men are mad.

Every old poem is sacred.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Don't think, just do.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

A picture is a poem without words.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

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

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.