Horace Quotes

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

Well begun is half done.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

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.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

What's well begun is half done.

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.