Quotes from Horace

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

Make a good use of the present.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Now is the time to drink!

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

What has not wasting time impaired?

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.