Avoided Quote by Horace Download Open image “That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avoided Destructive Inspirational Laziness Sirens Sloth
The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Once the sailors heard it [the siren's song] all that mattered didn't matter anymore. — Mitch Maurer Copy Share Image
“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been trained by that siren. Before I could walk I knew the siren meant death. It meant somehow the… — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause… — Patanjali 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
I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
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