The arrow will not always find the mark intended. Horace More Quotes by Horace More Quotes From Horace Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Horace spillssuperfluousmind Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future. Horace seize-the-momentseize-the-daylittles Small things become small folks. Horace small-thingsfolks 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. Horace wineheartthinking It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically. Horace difficultuniversalspeak I have completed a monument more lasting than brass. Horace brassmonumentlasting Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel. Horace pleasuretoo-muchgood-things Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe. Horace passiongrieffall A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips. Horace wifemoneymen Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. Horace poetfreedomclaims To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way. Horace happinessmenway There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. Horace virtuelimitsmean Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. Horace ratepoetrymen That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you. Horace pleasurepoetrygiving I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets. Horace tribespoetryorder You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original. Horace wellsmadeordinary Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished. Horace passionwisecharacter Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health. Horace flowblessingfirsts Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. Horace blisscourtkings He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last. Horace shoeschoicesmen
