Old wives tales Quote by Horace Download Open image “He tells old wives' tales much to the point.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Old wives tales Storytelling Tales Wife
“He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he remembers it,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, We live our lives based on dead men's tale. It is okay to tell tales… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. — Erin Morgenstern 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
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
