Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
trying fool shame
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
succeed sat stills
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
arrows guilt defense
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were
each-day gains morrow
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
strong wine boys
Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.
assess best colorado definitely fair guess obviously prepared strengths weaknesses
We definitely were not prepared, but I guess we were prepared the best we could. I obviously wasn't able to assess the strengths and weaknesses of Colorado because we didn't give them a fair fight.
bucket tractor
What do I do? I've got chainsaws, a tractor with a bucket and a backhoe,
bills draw english-author full men seldom sent
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
difference game kid win
We wanted to win and so did they, ... The difference in the game was the one kid and his speed.