Cottages Quote by Horace Download Open image “Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cottages Enjoy Greatness Kings May Real Real happiness
A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there are always… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can't bear living even in… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages. — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages? — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. — Sallust Copy Share Image
In a simple and a peaceful cottage with a beautiful view, you will not be dreaming about the palaces or the heaven, because you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some… — Martha Reeves 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 Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
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 Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
American forces in Iraq found $650 million in American cash sealed in a hidden cottage. See, this is why President Bush wants to invade… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price. — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery. “What is it?” she whispered. “It’s a box,” he whispered back. “What… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business. — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies!… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image