Quotes By Horace
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
Horace
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
Horace
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Horace
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Horace
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Horace
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace