1,095 Quotes by Horace

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

Humble things become the humble.