black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Punishment follows close on crime.

Horace

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life

Punishment follows close on crime.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Punishment follows close on crime.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Horace Quotes