Famous Horace Quotations

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"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."
by Horace Mann
"I teach that all men are mad."
by Horace
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
by Horace
"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."
by Horace
"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
by Horace
"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."
by Horace Walpole
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
by Horace
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
by Horace Mann
"A word once uttered can never be recalled."
by Horace
"The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain."
by Horace
"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."
by Horace
"Whatever advice you give, be short."
by Horace
"When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed."
by Horace
"Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?"
by Horace
"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."
by Horace
"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."
by Horace
"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."
by Horace
"Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them."
by Horace
"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."
by Horace
"Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him."
by Horace
"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."
by Horace
"If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him."
by Horace
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
by Horace Walpole
"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
by Horace
"Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse."
by Horace
"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."
by Horace
"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water."
by Horace
"Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal."
by Horace
"Poets wish to profit or to please."
by Horace
"Nothing's beautiful from every point of view."
by Horace
"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."
by Horace
"Make a good use of the present."
by Horace
"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country."
by Horace
"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."
by Horace
"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire."
by Horace
"Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true"
by Horace
"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."
by Horace
"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
by Horace Mann
"He has the deed half done who has made a beginning."
by Horace
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."
by Horace Mann
"Every old poem is sacred."
by Horace
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
by Horace
"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
by Horace
"Don't think, just do."
by Horace
"Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance."
by Horace
"A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient."
by Horace
"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."
by Horace
"A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius."
by Horace
"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."
by Horace
"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them."
by Horace
"A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably."
by Horace
"Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins"
by Horace Mann
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."
by Horace
"Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score."
by Horace
"And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm."
by John Dryden
"Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity."
by Horace Mann
"Begin, be bold and venture to be wise."
by Horace
"Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)"
by Horace
"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth."
by Horace
"Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants."
by Horace
"Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us."
by Horace Mann
"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow."
by Horace
"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."
by Horace
"Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them."
by George Horace Lorimer
"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
by Horace
"Courage is the fear of being thought a coward."
by Horace Smith
"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago."
by Horace Mann
"Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)"
by Horace
"Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you."
by Horace
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."
by Horace Mann
"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
by Horace
"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."
by Horace
"Faults are soon copied."
by Horace
"Foolish writers and readers are created for each other."
by Horace Walpole
"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."
by Horace
"Friends are treasures."
by Horace Bruns
"Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing."
by Horace
"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."
by Horace
"He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass."
by Horace
"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world."
by Horace
"He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful."
by Horace
"He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long."
by Horace
"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!"
by Horace
"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin"
by Horace
"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure."
by Horace
"He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."
by Horace
"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
by Horace
"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
by Horace
"He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay."
by Horace
"Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes."
by Donald O. Rickter
"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well."
by Horace
"I strive to be brief, and become obscure."
by Horace
"I strive to be brief but I become obscure."
by Horace
"I will not add another word."
by Horace
"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."
by Horace
"If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble."
by Horace Bushnell
"If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself."
by Horace
"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."
by Horace
"In labouring to be concise, I become obscure."
by Horace
"In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon."
by Horace


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