Cato Quote by Horace Download Open image “It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cato Exciting Grapes Influence Propriety Said
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a… — Andre Tchelistcheff Copy Share Image
So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
“A grapefruit is only a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
“Since the discovery of the fermented grape, humans have experienced the pain and the frustration of addiction.” — David W Earle Copy Share Image
Wine is an art and a science at the same time. That's why there's a mystique about it and why a little grape can… — Bill Wilson Copy Share Image
“With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich… — Isabel Allende 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
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult.,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“When he[Thresh] shouts, I jump, never having heard him speak above a mutter. "What'd you do to that little girl? You kill her?" Clove… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Clove!" Cato's voice is much nearer now. I can tell by the pain in it that he sees her on the ground. "You better… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image