1,095 Quotes by Horace

In my integrity I’ll wrap me up.

Don’t long for the unripe grape.

A picture is a poem without words.

Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle’s prompting no one is lost for words, no one who’s cramped by poverty fails to find release.

The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat.

The changing year’s successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Why do you laugh? Change the name and the story is about you.

Even virtue followed beyond reason’s rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, “I have lived.” Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.