It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
Horace
Related
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
HORACE They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war,...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!
- Horace Smith and James Smith,
HORACE SMITH AND JAMES SMITH It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord.
BIBLE It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
HOMER The old lie; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fathe...
WILFRED OWEN And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; ...
SHūSAKU ENDō It is not such a hard thing, is it - to die for your friends.
SARAH J. MAAS The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,Though to itself it only live and die.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is overdoing the thing to die for love.
FRENCH PROVERB Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. Ecclesiasticus 1...
BIBLE Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
GEORGE S. PATTON 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me.
NEIL KINNOCK I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
NEIL KINNOCK I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me
NEIL KINNOCK The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
GEORGE S. PATTON The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
GENERAL PATTERSON (WWII) There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; ...
GEORGE BORROW All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his de...
HOMER It is a sweet thing to outstrip a father whom you haven’t forgiven.
THOMAS KENEALLY I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch ov...
MARK TWAIN You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholder...
MARK TWAIN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for ...
GEORGE SMITH PATTON No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for ...
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch ov...
MARK TWAIN He is the English Horace,
ALEXANDER POPE No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some othe...
GEORGE S. PATTON JR. Let my country die for me.
JAMES JOYCE Then in town let me live, and in town let me die
For I own I can't relish the country, not I.
...
CHARLES MORRIS It was a very sweet, touching thing.
ANDREA OKOMSKI Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to di...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to di...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
WILL ROGERS I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after al...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER Seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely it is a hard thing except for the humbl...
QURAN Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grande...
JASON HURST I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
HAROLD HOLZER To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
SAMUEL BUTLER The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our abilit...
DALAI LAMA XIV What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
JOSEPH ADDISON A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
RITA RUDNER I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Every living thing requires love to survive for without it, we die.
SANJO JENDAYI Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie,
My musick shows...
GEORGE HERBERT The great thing about making music from your heart is that you don't do it for the accolades ? but i...
BEN LEE The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to...
FRANK MCCOURT Any time you can beat a county team it is a good thing and a district win makes it even double sweet...
JOE LAYNE So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alon...
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alon...
ANNA BARBAULD When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alon...
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
DOROTHY DIX The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is t...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Be careful of the words you say.And keep them soft and sweet.
For you never know from day to day.Whi...
UNKNOWN It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, th...
H. L. MENCKEN Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, th...
H. L. MENCKEN Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they...
GLORIA STEINEM Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing the...
H. L. MENCKEN Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.
HAROLD HOLZER A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
RITA RUDNER It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
LAURE96 WhEN SOmEonE ASkS yOU For A SweeT NEvEr Say U AInt HUNgery!! Its Dogs Who EAt FOr HUnger PeoplE Eat ...
MONIKA SINGH It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
ANDREW YOUNG For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Close your Eyes for Sometime,Store Sweet and Beautiful Memories in Your Heart, and Surrender Yoursel...
PRIYANKA C Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter.
JOSHUA CALEB A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. ...
TOMMY CHONG Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? B...
SITTING BULL Our country needs a Democratic president, a Democratic Congress and most important, a Democratic con...
BILL BRADLEY It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means t...
TERRY PRATCHETT She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a bonny wee thing,
This ...
ROBERT BURNS you young ones . . .” ‘Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ev...
CHARLES STROSS For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has eve...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
More Horace
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can ret...
HORACE Don't think, just do.
HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
HORACE The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Wh...
HORACE A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
HORACE Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make m...
HORACE One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by differ...
HORACE You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and do...
HORACE Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as ga...
HORACE He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
HORACE A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with th...
HORACE Labor diligently to increase your property.
HORACE Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who...
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
HORACE Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
HORACE You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers...
HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
HORACE One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instr...
HORACE Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
HORACE How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which c...
HORACE Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
HORACE Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...
HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HORACE Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
HORACE The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
HORACE A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
HORACE He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot...
HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
HORACE Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they wi...
HORACE The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the light...
HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
HORACE Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity ...
HORACE Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up,...
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
HORACE Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
HORACE This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are a...
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
HORACE I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
HORACE Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
HORACE I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
HORACE The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poe...
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
HORACE Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
HORACE He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
HORACE In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns up...
HORACE Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
HORACE Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction a...
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain d...
HORACE Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
HORACE In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
HORACE Buy the rumor and sell the fact
HORACE No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slo...
HORACE The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at
HORACE It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...
HORACE Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of w...
HORACE He who is greedy is always in want.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
HORACE Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the ...
HORACE Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, be...
HORACE It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE The pen is the tongue of the mind.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dor...
HORACE Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
HORACE Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...
HORACE The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous ...
HORACE Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
HORACE To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come a...
HORACE The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
HORACE Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
HORACE There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right canno...
HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
HORACE Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
HORACE Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
HORACE I will not add another word.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be...
HORACE Faults are soon copied.
HORACE In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HORACE In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
HORACE A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doi...
HORACE The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
HORACE You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m...
HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
HORACE The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
HORACE Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HORACE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
HORACE I shall not altogether die.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
HORACE Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine
HORACE Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it ...
HORACE A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE