1,095 Quotes by Horace

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.