"Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork,……" — Horace
"Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again."
—
Horace
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
499 Quotes by Horace
Horace has 499 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
-
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness…
-
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not…
-
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
-
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
-
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives…
-
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
-
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
-
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
-
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
-
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
-
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
See all 499 quotes by Horace »
More Door Quotes
This quote is filed under Door Quotes,
one of 3,831 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to…
— Chinua Achebe
-
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
-
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl…
— Tyra Banks
-
I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in…
— Drew Barrymore
-
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
— John Barrymore
-
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
— Mario Batali
-
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology…
— Bob Beauprez
-
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
-
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is…
— Alexander Graham Bell
-
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
— Saul Bellow
-
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take…
— Robert Benchley
-
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance…
— John Berger
See all 3,831 Door Quotes »