1,095 Quotes by Horace

Brighter than Parian marble.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

And once sent out, words take wings beyond recall.

I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer. [Lat., Et idem Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

Nothing is achieved without toil.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

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