Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
Horace
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Loyalty
Bounds
Storm
Master
Allegiance
Masters
Drives
Turn
Shelter
Turns
Swear
Bound
More quotes by Horace
Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.
Horace
Never inquire into another man's secret bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
Horace
Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?
Horace
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
Horace
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
Horace
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
Horace
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
Horace
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
Horace
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Horace
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Horace
Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.
Horace
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]
Horace
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
Horace
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
Horace
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
Horace
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
Horace
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Horace
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
Horace
Small things become small folks.
Horace
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
Horace
