Quote

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Laughter
Friends
Restrain

More quotes by Horace

Image
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Horace
Image
I am doubting what to do.
Horace
Image
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
Horace
Image
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
Image
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
Horace
Image
A good resolve will make any port.
Horace
Image
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
Horace
Image
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
Horace
Image
Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.
Horace
Image
To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
Horace
Image
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Horace
Image
To have begun is half the job be bold and be sensible.
Horace
Image
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.
Horace
Image
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
Horace
Image
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.
Horace
Image
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Horace
Image
Those who want much, are always much in need happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.
Horace
Image
Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]
Horace
Image
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Horace
Image
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
Horace