Failing Quote by Horace Download Open image “Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Failure Language Matter Wells
For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered. — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
“Words fail.... As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language, whatever is… — Ramon C. Sunico Copy Share Image
“On a day like this there's no such word as fail in my bright lexicon.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. — Anonymous 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
