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
begun greek-poet half
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
jobs half sensible
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
done half tasks
Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done.
half finished
Who's started has half finished.
done half wells
What's well begun is half done.
latin done half
Half is done when the beginning is done.
half talent tact
Talent without tact is only half talent.
wise half done
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
laughing use half
How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.
taste half being-true
[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.
believe knowledge half
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
struggle
I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.
died pride vain
Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died