All Horace Quotes
- I don't think we're in Kansas anymore Anymore
- Men cease to think when they think they know it all. All
- Gloriously false, a maid famous for all time. All
- For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire. Business
- He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any… Ancestral
- Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising… All
- Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. Brief
- He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, I have lived. Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world… Cheer
- Though you drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will still find her way back. Drive
- Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither… Admit
- When nature made you, they broke the mold - rumor has it they beat the hell out of the mold-maker, too Beat
- The age of our fathers, which was worse than that of our ancestors, produced us, who are about to raise a progeny even more vicious… Age
- He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. Approval
- 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… Doe
- Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. Ablaze
- Think to yourself that every day is your last Day
- True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not so loud as those that cry for hire Appear
- As crazy as hauling timber into the woods. Crazy
- Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old… Able
- Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man Allowed
- You [the people] are a many-headed beast. Beast
- Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were Arrows
- We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. Born
- Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt (They change their sky, not their soul, those who rush across the sea) Across