1,095 Quotes by Horace

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.]

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done.