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Horace Quotes - Page 24

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

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

Stupid, Silly, Mountain

'Ars Poetica' l. 139

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Feet, Long, Half

Ars Poetica l. 97

O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

Art, Stupid, Wine

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.362, Delphi Classics

Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

Oxen, Land, Yoke

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

Poetry, Anvils, Ill

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

Overflow, Bosoms, Superfluous

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Ars Poetica, 337, 1922.

Small things become small folks.

Folks, Small Things

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.368, Delphi Classics

Summer treads on heels of spring.

Summer, Spring, Heels

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

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Ordinary, Made, Wells

'Ars Poetica' l. 47

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

Jobs, Half, Sensible

'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 40

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

Men, Wish, Purses

Drawing is the true test of art.

Art, Drawing, Tests

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

Mind, Praise, Greedy

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

Useless, Deeds, Wealth

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

Nature, Way, Pitchforks

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

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

Sometimes, Worthy

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Integrity, Way, Sin

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

Secret, Virtue, Pleasure

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

Strength, Judgment, Policy

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

Mind, Enough, Charm

Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

Way, Common, Individual

'Ars Poetica' l. 128

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

Wings, Lasts, Poverty

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Carmina, III. 29, 1922.

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

Carpe Diem, Seize The Day, Morrow

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

Money, Men, Wife

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.365, Delphi Classics

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

Worthy, Difficulty, Intervention

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