Out of the frying pan into the fire.


Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)

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Out of the frying pan into the fire.
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS TERTULLIANUS
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
TERTULLIAN
Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first. ...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. [Lat., Velle suuum cuique...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largi...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni De nihilo ...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.]
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
To be pointed out with the finger.
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in fro...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
Fit to give weight to smoke. [Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.]
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
Out of the frying pan into the fire. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD
I have to sort of get myself back out there and this is sort of out of the frying pan into the fire.
SARAH MCLACHLAN
Told me if I did not smell of the fire then I smelled of the frying pan.
HILARY MANTEL
We are praying now for the repose of his soul. Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of ai...
JAMES JOYCE
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘o...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER
We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER
Matt made a comment, correcting me: 'No Dick,' he said, 'you're going from the fire to the frying pa...
DICK JOHNSON
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
PERSIUS
He conquers who endures.
PERSIUS
Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.
PERSIUS
Oh, what a void there is in things.
PERSIUS
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
PERSIUS
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations
PERSIUS
To-morrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven
PERSIUS
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, can draw you to her with a single hair
PERSIUS
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
PERSIUS
And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own
PERSIUS
Only thing they wanted was change, even if it means jumping from a frying pan to fire or leaping fro...
DR HITESH C SHETH
When in a frying pan, thank your stars. You will reminisce about it moments later, when you fall in ...
PRASHANT YADAV
You were sizzling, like sausages in a frying pan.
KRISTINA ADAMS
As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ...
MEREDITH WILD
Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
MEREDITH WILD
Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wieldin...
BRANDON SANDERSON
Ann, Ann! Come! quick as you can! There's a fish that talks In the frying-pan.
WALTER DE LA MARE
Ann, Ann! / Come! quick as you can! / There's a fish that talks / In the frying pan.
WALTER DE LA MARE
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
You’re wondering whether this is a good idea. Because you’re smart and you see right through me,...
MEREDITH WILD
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
In Spanish, we have a saying: 'The woman and the frying pan belong in the kitchen.' Ohhhh, I...
CHARO
And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then, Flaccus, I suspect you can see wh...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL
The fire of hope never dies.
BEN OAK
Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS
I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's just like a Teflon frying pan...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER
I think what we've seen over the last couple of months is an investor shift from being concerned abo...
JOHN ZIMMERMAN
I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a T...
PAT SCHROEDER
I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a T...
PAT SCHROEDER
Carter got jeans, boots, and a T-shirt that read Property of Alexandria University in English...
RICK RIORDAN
We were spraying down the neighbor's house with water and every time you hit it with a stream of wat...
CHRIS PFEIFFER
We were spraying down the neighbor's house with water, and every time you hit it with a stream of wa...
CHRIS PFEIFFER
My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying...
NOBU MATSUHISA
Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk...
ERIN HUNTER
No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
ROBERT AICKMAN
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours...
JON KRAKAUER
FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitc...
AMBROSE BIERCE
I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railr...
JENNIFER MCMAHON
You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN
For Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.
BROM
My name's Peter. Can I play too?
BROM
I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't...
KARL SCHROEDER
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That’s the kind of guy ...
JOSé MOURINHO
I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.
ADRIENNE RICH
The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really sho...
SARAH BETH DURST
If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and crack...
TOM WAITS
Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by...
RICK RIORDAN
He plants himself right there in front of Craig’s mother and says, “You need to love him. I don�...
DAVID LEVITHAN
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
The problem with when you look at eBay is that you can put a pair of Jordans next to a frying pan. I...
TROY CARTER
It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stu...
CATE TIERNAN
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as c...
THOMAS CARLYLE
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first. ...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. [Lat., Velle suuum cuique...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largi...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni De nihilo ...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.]
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
To be pointed out with the finger.
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in fro...
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
Fit to give weight to smoke. [Lat., Dare pondus idonea fumo.]
PERSIUS (AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS)
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
PERSIUS
He conquers who endures.
PERSIUS
Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.
PERSIUS
Oh, what a void there is in things.
PERSIUS
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
PERSIUS
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations
PERSIUS
To-morrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven
PERSIUS
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, can draw you to her with a single hair
PERSIUS
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
PERSIUS
And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own
PERSIUS
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
FLACCUS
I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
AULUS GELLIUS
Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum sum...
AULUS GELLIUS
Truth is the daughter of time.
AULUS GELLIUS
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter...
AULUS GELLIUS
I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
AULUS GELLIUS
But are they heroes or mere dreamers?
GAIUS VALERIUS FLACCUS
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [La...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici, Occa...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indic...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pec...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat.,...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
A crafty knave needs no broker.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mih...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. [Lat., Quid velit et possit ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium Nudus castra peti.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition). [Lat., Dens Theonia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous m...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fug...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand w...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of th...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
One man with courage makes a majority.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyra...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness? [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam Simple...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [Lat., Male verum examinat omnis Corr...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed le...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer. [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brev...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat.,...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dan...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas Sortitur ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant h...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less qua...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natur...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours. [Lat., Demens Judicio vulgi, sanus fo...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby t...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wa...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duch...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acr...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Bolt from the blue.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matr...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae F...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Calig...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultim...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugn...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS
I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of th...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence ...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus...
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. [Lat., Intererit multum Davusne loquat...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unar...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
You will swim without cork (without help). [Lat., Nabis sine cortice.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. [Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, pari...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia t...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemqu...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. [Lat., C...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?] ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Drawing is the true test of art.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [Lat., Pictoribus atque poetis ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorro...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum es...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio s...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrant...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, in...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat.,...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna. [Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for thems...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
It is grievous to be caught. [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth....
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. [Lat., Hi...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolo...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skie...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptati...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Anger is a short madness.
QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS HORACE