Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. — Horace Copy Share Image
“As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.” — Horace Copy Share Image
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. — Horace Copy Share Image
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart. — Horace Copy Share Image
Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. — Horace Copy Share Image
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest. — Horace Copy Share Image
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the… — Horace Copy Share Image
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they… — Horace Copy Share Image
It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive… — Horace Copy Share Image
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more… — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time… — Horace Copy Share Image
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this… — Horace Copy Share Image
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if… — Horace Copy Share Image
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor,… — Horace Copy Share Image
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding… — Horace Copy Share Image
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away. — Horace Copy Share Image
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow. — Horace Copy Share Image
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. — Horace Copy Share Image
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. — Horace Copy Share Image
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. — Horace Copy Share Image
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future — Horace Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so… — Horace Copy Share
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share