Quote

If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Looks
Things
Badly
Tomorrow
May
Better
Look

More quotes by Horace

Image
Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)
Horace
Image
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
Horace
Image
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
Horace
Image
The covetous person is full of fear and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
Horace
Image
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
Horace
Image
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
Horace
Image
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
Horace
Image
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
Horace
Image
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
Horace
Image
When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
Horace
Image
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Horace
Image
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
Horace
Image
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Horace
Image
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
Horace
Image
Whatever you teach, be brief what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
Horace
Image
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
Horace
Image
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
Horace
Image
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
Horace
Image
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
Horace
Image
Leave the rest to the gods.
Horace