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Horace Quotes - Page 27

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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Death, Art, Kings

If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

Knowledge, Use, Impart

"Epistles". Book by HoraceI, 6, 67. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23,

Take heed lest you stumble.

Heed

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

Struggle, Obscure, Ends

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

Fall, Weight, Judgment

Books have their destinies.

Book, Destiny

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

Should, Knows

Tear thyself from delay.

Procrastination, Tears, Delay

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

Night, Men, Bravery

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 82-83, Odes, Book IV, IX. 25, 1922.

One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti.]

Death, Night, Way

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

Happiness, Men, Way

'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 6, l. 1

We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]

Death, Sooner Or Later, Compelled

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Freedom, Poet, Claims

One Sallow does not make Summer.

Summer, Latin, Doe

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

Fortune, Incomplete

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

Noble, Wealth, Descent

"Satires", II. 5. 8, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Riches, Wealth

"Epistles", I. 10. 47, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

Latin, Poet, Limbs

Satires bk. 1, no. 4, l. 62

Plant no other tree before the vine.

Tree, Vines, Plant

"Carmina", I. 18, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 812-14, 1922.

Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]

Knows

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

Art, Powerful, Wine

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

Hands, Want, Satisfaction

"Carmina", Book III. 16. 42, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 690-91, 1922.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Sports, War, Wrath

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

Dolphins, Woods, Painting

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 576-77, Ars Poetica, XXX, 1922.

The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

Snow, Tree, Lasts

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