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
Turn
Shelter
Turns
Swear
Bound
Loyalty
Bounds
Storm
Master
Allegiance
Masters
Drives
More quotes by Horace
Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]
Horace
Punishment follows close on crime.
Horace
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.
Horace
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Horace
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
Horace
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Horace
Labor diligently to increase your property.
Horace
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
Horace
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
Horace
Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.
Horace
He who is greedy is always in want.
Horace
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
Horace
I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.
Horace
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]
Horace
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Horace
We are deceived by the appearance of right.
Horace
Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
Horace
Too indolent to bear the toil of writing I mean of writing well I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]
Horace
Anger is a short madness.
Horace
