1,095 Quotes by Horace

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

Mistakes are their own instructors