Top 100 Quotes About Horace
#1. But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
Horace Mann
#2. Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
Horace
#3. Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
Horace
#4. We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.
Horace
#5. He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Horace
#6. He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace
#7. Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
[Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
Horace
#8. 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.]
Horace
#9. We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.
Horace Silver
#11. And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
Horace
#12. Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace
#13. Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
Horace
#14. Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
Horace
#15. He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that will make money for the publisher, cross the seas, and extend the fame of the author.
Horace
#16. Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
Horace Walpole
#17. Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.
Horace Mann
#18. Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
Horace
#19. Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.
Reginald Horace Blyth
#20. No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.
Horace Mann
#21. A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Horace
#22. You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
Horace
#23. My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Horace
#24. Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
Horace
#25. Happy he who far from business persuits
Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands
With oxen of his own breeding
Having no slavish yoke about his neck.
Horace
#26. He is always a slave who cannot live on little.
Horace
#27. He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.
Horace
#28. A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
Horace
#29. Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.
Horace
#30. It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
Horace
#31. 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.
Horace Mann
#32. I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
Horace
#33. Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Horace
#34. The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
George Horace Lorimer
#35. Never take your eyes off them," Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. "Didn't MacNeil ever tell you that?
John Flanagan
#36. An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
Horace Mann
#37. We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley
Harold Holzer
#38. Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
Horace
#39. The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
Horace
#40. He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
Horace
#41. Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.
Horace Mann
#42. Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Horace
#43. Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.
[Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
Horace
#44. What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
Horace
#45. There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.
Horace Bushnell
#46. Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.
Horace Bushnell
#47. What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Horace
#48. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
Horace
#49. In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
Horace Mann
#50. Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
Horace Mann
#51. 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.
Horace
#52. Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
Horace Mann
#53. The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
Horace
#54. The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.
Horace
#55. Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace
#56. Imitations of Horace. Of two evils I have chose the least.
Various
#57. The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
Horace
#58. Benevolence is a world of itself
a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.
Horace Mann
#59. If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
Horace
#60. Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!
Horace Binney Wallace
#61. In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
Horace
#62. Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
Horace
#64. Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
Horace
#65. Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.
(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)
Horace
#66. The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
[Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]
Horace
#67. No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Horace
#69. The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley
#70. The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
George Horace Lorimer
#71. Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
Horace
#72. Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.
Horace Mann
#73. It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
Horace
#74. When you make a mistake, don't make a second one
keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.
George Horace Lorimer
#75. He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.
Horace
#76. When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
Horace Walpole
#77. Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
Horace Mann
#78. The dispute is still before the judge.
Horace
#79. I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
Horace
#80. If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.
[Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
Horace
#81. carpe diem (seize the day)
Enjoy! Enjoy!
Horace
#82. If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Horace Mann
#83. The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
[Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]
Horace
#84. Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
Horace Smith
#85. Serendipity ... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.
Horace Walpole
#86. You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick."
Svenal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time to find a more comfortable spot.
"It's true," he said. "I've been discovering parts of my backside I never knew existed.
John Flanagan
#87. The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
Horace
#88. If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
Horace Greeley
#89. To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
Horace Walpole
#90. Humph. Looking around for the sword, are you? Well, it's a better idea than thrashing around at random.'
'The Prince,' said Master Horace repressively, 'will inform us of his intentions when he wishes to do so. We are here to serve, not to quest
'
'Yes, it's the sword,' Edoran told her.
Hilari Bell
#91. Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
Horace
#92. Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.
Horace Mann
#93. I shall not completely die.
Horace
#94. As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
Horace
#96. Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods.
[Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]
Horace
#97. Good Lord's been kind to me, that's all I can say. I wake up in the morning with music in my head a lot of times. I won't say every morning, but I wake up in the morning sometimes with eight bars in my head and I just go to the piano.
Horace Silver
#98. Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
Horace Greeley
#99. A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Horace
#100. Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness ...
Martha Finley
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