Failing Quote by Horace Download Open image “Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Good times Horse Laughing Lists Retirement Spectators Time
“There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every… — Mark Spragg Copy Share Image
“The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“His chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes; he was unable to let a good idea drop, and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse. The comment had some truth in it, in that the heroine did have an equine cast of feature,… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share
“The horses have all been found. No harm was done.” “It took us two days to gather them! On foot! I will never hear… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“If you sell me a horse that throws a shoe, or starts to limp, or spooks at shadows, I will miss a valuable opportunity.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“A horse does not greet the sun and say, "Today will be better." It can only reflect upon days of past experiences. It is… — Karen West Copy Share Image
“Why didn't you say something sooner! I said He wasn't the only one disgusted. This is my first time on a horse. Really? Blaec… — Sunny Copy Share Image
“Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.” — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“Horses are the ruination of everyone, your father has a craze for them but then we all do crazy things.” — Edna O'Brien 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
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image