Quote

Those that are little, little things suit.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Action
Littles
Little
Things
Suit
Suits

More quotes by Horace

Image
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
Horace
Image
Nothing is achieved without toil.
Horace
Image
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.
Horace
Image
Busy idleness urges us on.
Horace
Image
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
Horace
Image
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
Horace
Image
A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
Horace
Image
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace
Image
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace
Image
Anger is brief madness
Horace
Image
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
Horace
Image
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
Horace
Image
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
Horace
Image
The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
Horace
Image
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace
Image
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
Horace
Image
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace
Image
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
Horace
Image
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]
Horace
Image
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
Horace