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Horace Quotes - Page 22

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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

Advice, Mind, Superfluous

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Wall, Business, Fire

'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 18, l. 84

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Men, Poetry, Mediocrity

"Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Lines 372 - 373, c. 18 BC.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

Poet, Madmen, Fellows

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Fear, Contentment, Atheism

Horace (1961). “Odes and Epodes: In the original Latin and in English translations”

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

Doe, Thorns, Ifs

"Epistles". Book by Horace, II. 2. 212, 20 BC.

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

Excellence, Sometimes, Excellent

Ars Poetica l. 359

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

Errors, Different, Different Directions

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 236-37, Satires, II. 3. 50, 1922.

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

Country, Sweet, Latin

Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.

Inspire, Care, Able

"Carmina", IV, 12, 19, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 874-77, 1922.

The words can not return.

Latin, Return, Can Not

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

Men, Vices, Born

Horace (1850). “Works”, p.169

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

Honor, Riches, Slave

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Mean, Envy, Golden

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Suffering, Want, Avarice

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Lying, Father, Deceiving Others

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

Running, Wine, Water

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

Men, Difficult, Accomplish

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

Laughter, Stolen, Colour

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Slave, Be A Slave, Persons

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

Men, Different, Pursuit

The covetous man is ever in want.

Men, Greed, Want

Horace (1836). “The works of Horace: translated literally into English prose; for the use of those who are desirous of acquiring or recovering a competent knowledge of the Latin language”, p.235

In giving advice I advise you, be short.

Giving, Advice, Giving Advice

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

Tasks, Done, Half

"A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators".

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Death, Kings, Feet

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